I had a a cheek lift, lateral canthoplasty, under blepharoplasty, direct brow lift, buccal fat removal, & chin lipo all at once under local anesthesia 8 days ago. The swelling is pretty minimal & not really noticeable at all aside from some bruising around my eyelids. I want to get a revision rhinoplasty next week also under local anesthesia as I am overseas & don’t have much time here. It’ll be 2 weeks between both surgeries. Is that enough time to do it safely?
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Based on your photos, you appear to have very thin nasal skin. When people have thin nasal skin, there can be exaggerated shrink-wrap of the skin onto the underlying cartilages and bone of the nose. Since you have thin skin, I believe the expertise of your revision rhinoplasty specialist would...
About the tip dropping: it's hard to place a tip just exactly in the right spot. The natural history of healing is that the tip does come down, so the surgeon often places the tip higher than ideal and tries to secure it well in that position. If the tip is a *long* way from your ideal, well,...