It is best to eat a light, soft, and cool diet as tolerated after recovery from the anesthetic. Avoid hot liquids for several days. It is best to go slowly with food immediately after the procedure to prevent postoperative nausea and vomiting.
Talk with your surgeon about the risks and benefits of rhinoplasty, and what results you can expect.
Nearly everyone who has rhinoplasty is able to safely leave the hospital the same day after surgery. In rare cases, you may stay in the hospital for one night if you're having a hard time with nausea or have other health problems that need to be monitored.
Tylenol is an acceptable pain reliever. Prescriptions for pain medications are usually written prior to the date of surgery and should be filled in advance.
A second opinion from another medical practitioner specially trained and experienced in performing facial implant surgery
Photograph C. Open rhinoplasty: The metal nasal splint aids wound healing by protecting the tender tissues of the new nose.
Immediately after the nasal packs are removed, a saline nasal spray such as "Ocean Spray" is used several times per day to prevent crusts from forming in the nose.
Yet, bulkiness is the primário disadvantage of the nasolabial flap—except in elderly patients with atrophic cheek skin; nonetheless, it is technically effective for patients unsuitable for a two-stage rhinoplasty with a paramedian forehead flap.
reporting any bleeding, severe pain or unusual symptoms to your surgeon, including sudden nosebleeds
If you're not happy with the results of your operation, or you think it was not carried out properly, speak to your surgeon at the hospital or clinic where you were treated.
After the nasolabial flap has been emplaced, the flap donor-site wound is sutured closed. For a wound of the lateral nasal wall that is less than 15 mm wide, the flap donor-sitio can be closed primarily, with sutures. For a wound wider than 15 mm—especially a wound that comprehends the alar lobule and the lateral wall of the nose—primary closure is not indicated, because such a wound closure imposes excessive stresses upon the skin flap, thereby risking either blanching (whitening) nosejob or distortion, or both.
The vomer bone lies below and to the back (posteroinferiorly), and partially forms the choanal opening into the nasopharynx, (the upper portion of the pharynx that is continuous with the nasal passages). The floor of the nose comprises the premaxilla bone and the palatine bone, the roof of the mouth.
You will need to have a discussion with your surgeon before engaging in any strenuous impact/contact sports.
The nasal lining of the distal two-thirds of the nose can be covered with anteriorly based septal mucosal flaps; however, if bilateral septal-flaps are used, the septal cartilage does become devascularized, possibly from iatrogenic septal perforation. Furthermore, if the nasal defect is beyond the wound-correction scope of a septal mucosal flap, the alternative techniques are either an inferiorly based pericranial-flap (harvested from the frontal bone) or a free flap of temporoparietal fascia (harvested from the head), either of which can be lined with free grafts of mucosa to achieve the nasal reconstruction. Corrections of defect rhinoplasty and deformity[edit]