In the first few days, it is convenient to have the necessary things already at home and within reach.
Contact the clinic immediately. A fever, flu, cold, or respiratory infection can make anesthesia and surgery less safe and the procedure may need to be postponed.
Not necessarily. Many medications affect clotting. Give your surgeon a complete list (prescription, over-the-counter, vitamins, herbals, sports supplements) and follow his or her instructions.
Smoking, in addition to other harmful effects, causes impaired wound healing, increases the risk of surgery, and lowers the resistance of the nose, throat, and lungs to bacterial infections. „Just a few cigarettes“ is no exception.
It is normal if:
Mild swelling of the tip of the nose may persist for 12 months or longer. In the case of a nose with thick skin, the contour may take 12 to 24 months to clear.
For some people, salty foods can temporarily increase fluid retention. This will not affect the outcome of the surgery, but it may make the nose more swollen the next morning.
Avoid swimming pools, hot tubs, sea swimming, saunas, and long-term hot baths for about four weeks, as heat can increase swelling and swimming increases the risk of infection.
Contact the clinic if the swelling begins to increase significantly after initial healing or is accompanied by:
These symptoms do not automatically prove an infection or blood supply disorder, but require prompt professional evaluation.
It depends on the nature of the work, the bruises, and how you feel. Many people return to office work after the splint is removed or in the second week, but for physical work, a longer break should be considered.
Longer walks can usually be started after the first week, light non-impact exercise in the second or third week, and heavy lifting after the fourth week. Contact sports should be resumed after at least two months and with the surgeon's approval.
Rhinoplasty The final result depends not only on the surgical technique but also on the healing process. The final scar formation may take more than a year, and during this time aesthetic defects may appear that, upon the joint decision of the doctor and the patient, require a repeat operation. The need for some amount of repeat surgery is approximately 10-15% rhinoplasty patients.
Reasons:
In most cases, the volume of revision surgeries is small and limited to the repair of isolated defects. In more severe cases, however, the revision rhinoplasty may be significantly larger than the previous surgery and the recovery may be longer. For a successful revision surgery, it may be necessary to transplant cartilage material to the nose. In this case, the donor site is either the auricular cartilage or the costal cartilage.
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After rhinoplasty, the nose changes over the months. Swelling decreases, scar tissue softens, and the shape of the nose may therefore change over time. For these reasons, the need for revision surgery cannot usually be reliably assessed within the first 6-12 months.
In patients with thick skin or extensive surgery, the final result may take up to two years to become clear. Intervening too early means operating on swollen and actively scarring tissue, making the result less predictable.
The exception is a problem that requires urgent treatment, such as an infection, a blood supply problem in the skin, severe respiratory obstruction, or other urgent condition. complication.
Previous surgery alters anatomical planes and creates scar tissue. There may be less cartilage in the nasal septum, and the existing cartilage may be weakened or deformed. Therefore, the surgeon often needs alternative graft material.
For small defects, remaining septal or atrial cartilage can be used. For more extensive reconstruction, costal cartilage may be needed because it is abundant and strong, allowing for a more stable support structure. The need for a graft does not automatically mean that the previous surgery went „badly“; sometimes the cartilage in the nose itself is simply insufficient.
No. The need depends on how much septal or ear cartilage is left and how strong the supporting structure needs to be restored.
No. A small localized problem can often be corrected using a closed approach. Extensive structural reconstruction is usually done using an open approach.
For your follow-up visit, bring previous surgery descriptions, before and after photos, and a list of nose surgeries, trauma, and filler injections. Describe separately what is interfering with the shape and what is interfering with breathing.
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