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I would contact your surgeon and have your urine tested to see if you do indeed have a UTI or not. If you do, it should be treated before your surgery and you would still have time to do this before your surgery date in 12 days.
Dear Beth, Thank you for your question. You still have plenty of time to have the possible UTI treated before surgery. Discuss this with your plastic surgeon, have your urine tested, and start the antibiotics. You will be finished with the course before the surgery. Best Wishes, Pablo Prichard, MD
It is best to treat any infections before surgery. With 12 days remaining, a UTI may be treated without impacting the rhinoplasty results.
Hello KellyZup, Thanks for your question. You nasal tip has a long way to go before it is done healing. You can see the swelling clearly in the tissue behavior of your tip. Since your surgeon states that they didn't shorten your nose, it is probable that what you see is...
There are a number of treatments available for oily skin, and I would recommend an exam with a board certified dermatologist. They will be able to examine you in person and provide you with advice. I hope this helps, and I wish you the best of luck.
Although there is no clear evidence of this ... I find smoking to be detrimental to natural healing of nasal lining and I recommend to my patients that they should either give up smoking during the peri-operative period or use alternatives where the nose in not exposed to the noxious elements...
It depends on whether your fracture is displaced or if it broke and then the pieces remained in the same pre-injury location. If they are displaced, it could be that you are actually seeing the bone fragment sticking up. Without x-rays and an exam, it is impossible to tell you for sure.
Hi Happy, Glad to see a happy girl, so many fail to be grateful for what they have! Heightening the bridge of the nose does give the appearance of decreasing the projection of the nose. In most cases this is accomplished with rhinoplasty using the patient's own cartilage as...
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