Rhinoplasty - Nose Surgery

Rhinoplasty

Some patients are born with a nose they dislike, often similar to a parent's, and others have their noses altered by injury. There are many different procedures that can be used to alter various features of the nose and the ones needed to correct your nose will be selected. Together they make up the rhinoplasty operation. Unless a very minor procedure only is needed, the operation will be performed under general anaesthetic and you will need to stay in hospital overnight. When you wake up there will be small packs in each nostril so you will have to breathe through your mouth until the next morning when they will be removed. If the bones in your nose have been moved you will also have a plaster of Paris cast on your nose, which will stay on for a week.

Recovery is quite quick following rhinoplasty but the nose will feel fragile for a month or so and you will need to take things easy. Nasal bones only take 2 to 3 weeks to heal up but swelling is the main effect of surgery that you will notice. The amount of swelling and black eyes a patient gets varies considerably. It starts to go down very quickly at first but the rate slows down and the last little bit of swelling may take up to a year to settle. You should however notice an improvement straight away and you should be presentable after 10 days or so.

It must be appreciated that although a surgeon will normally be confident that he can leave you with the result you want at the end of the operation he is not in control of the healing processes which will influence the final result. Thus in the best of hands a small percentage of patients will wish to have a further surgical adjustment.

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