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Is it safe to have a rhinoplasty when you have a perforated septum?

heydoctors Feb 11, 2022
My perforated septum is on the larger size, about the size of a penny. Is it technically safe to try to straighten out and take a hump out of our nose when there is a hole in part of the supporting structure?

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