My nose bride is more on my left side and it make me look bad and I was wondering if applying pressure to the left side of my nose would it with time eventually get straighter?
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It is a bit early to determine the final result of your rhinoplasty. The indents and asymmetry you are seeing can be related to the surgery. I would seek your surgeon in regards to what you are seeing and also be patient before considering a revision too early. Swelling will take close to a year...
Ashok Govila, FRCS, MCh, MS - Account Suspended says:
Hi Dear Yes there is a hope.I do this kind of problems with building the missing part of upper half of nose with a cartilage graft to and reduce the size and thickness of nostrils along with tip in two stages.Tip is thick because of thick skin and because of thick fibro fatty tissue...
This is most commonly due to the swelling and mucous hyper secretion in reaction to surgery, not a turbinate problem (unless the turbinates were a problem before surgery and weren't addressed). I usually tell my patients they need to wait 6-8 weeks before they should be able to reliably see an...