Trauma to Nose After Septoplasty?

Considering you are about three weeks into your recovery, light to moderate sneezing should not pose a great risk to your healing process. What you are experiencing is in fact unusual- still, as long as you are not excessively sneezing, there shouldn’t be a problem. Try to control the s...

A septoplasty involves making the nasal septum straighter inside the nose. Balloon sinuplasty is a procedure used to dilate the openings of the sinuses. They treat very different things and in some cases are performed together at the same time during surgery. Balloon sinuplasty isn't right...

Submucosal resection using a microdebrider is a great technique as it minimizes the mucosal injury and the subsequent crusting and scabbing associated with it.  When performed conservatively, ozena/empty nose syndrome will not be an issue.    

Hello Eriny_99, It is fairly common to have septoplasty in late teenage years or later. It doesn't really hurt any more or less the older you are. The pain is usually more of an aching feeling for most people. I normally prescribe a narcotic pain medication for after surgery, though not everyone...

Normally, one should not worry if a stitch comes out soon after septoplasty. Most stitches after septoplasty surgery for a deviated septum are internal and dissolve with time. Sometimes the plastic surgeon will need to cut a couple stitches after about 1 week. Most important is to follow your...

Your concerns about having a septoplasty at a relatively young age are very reasonable. It is a complicated situation if the deviation is as severe as you describe. One must balance the issues of affecting nasal growth with the effects on maxillo-facial growth of having such a chronically...