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Why are Surgeons Against Topical Steroids After Rhinoplasty?

igalokMar 22, 2012
Why usually the experts say that nothing will thin the skin in rhinoplasty, when i can see by myself that steroids do thin the skin? Why most of them against topical steroid?

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