Rhinoplasty is one of the most commonly performed cosmetic surgical procedures that give favorable and extremely satisfactory results. While the main goal is correcting the aesthetic malformations of your nose it is extremely important to carefully preserve or restore nasal functions during this operation to ensure the aesthetical and functional success of your surgery.
Aesthetic nose surgery is basically among the procedures belonging to the facial aesthetic surgery. Facial aesthetic surgery is becoming more widespread throughout the world as a branch of otolaryngology. An otolaryngologist who is interested in facial aesthetic surgery will solve your nasal problems in the most ideal way in respect to aesthetic appearance and vital functions.
In order to provide optimal functional results in rhinoplasty surgeries, besides the external problems, intranasal anatomical structures and the ones around the nose should be carefully evaluated before the operation with direct and endoscopic examination. Also, a radiologic examination should be considered if there are invisible areas due to severe septal deviations and or suspicion of paranasal sinus pathologies in endoscopic evaluation of the nose.
As in most of aesthetic nose operations the external size and internal volume of the nose gets reduced, even if patients do not have nasal congestion before the surgery, it may become a problem after the procedure. In order to prevent this consequence, the need for correcting the intranasal septal deviation, reducing the size of nasal turbinates and or the paranasal sinus interventions should be evaluated and decided before the operation.
Surgical techniques and technologies used in aesthetic and functional surgeries of the nose, are constantly developing with intent to achieve better visual and functional results as well as ensure a faster and more comfortable recovery period after surgery.
In order to ensure your rhinoplasty to give aesthetic and functional results that can be considered successful based on the current criteria, the surgeon who will perform your surgery should be extremely experienced in the field of aesthetic and functional nose surgery and should also closely follow and implement the up-to-date information about this subject as well as surgical techniques and technologies.
The most important criterion of success in rhinoplasty operations is patient satisfaction and this can only be possible if the nose has the desired appearance and the patient is able to breathe comfortably after the surgery.
Sometimes the defects that the patient perceives as enormous may be corrected by a simple process, however, sometime a small defect may only be partially corrected with a long and difficult surgical intervention. Due to some factors like long duration of complete recovery, tissue properties of the patients, properties like healing of the wound, a minor corrective intervention may have to be performed following the completion of recovery at the rate of 5-15%.
In patients with fair skin and thin skin structure, if correction of advanced deformities and graft application is performed, the possibility of a second intervention increases; this possibility is quiet low in patients with not so thin skin and not having an obvious asymmetry in the nose. The most frequently seen problem in asymmetrical and deviated noses that are seen as “C” or “S” shape in the frontal view. This type of severe asymmetries may not be corrected completely due to obviously asymmetrical cartilages and bones in two sides of the nose and some amount of the asymmetry may remain when the nose gets the final shape after the healing period.
After the surgery, the nose that you will see when your cast and bandage are removed will not be the final result, the final result will form within 6-12 months, the fastest during the first 2-3 months according to the decrease in the edema. The duration for the nose to get its final shape is variable depending on the used surgical technique, the structure of nose skin and the type and amount of the grafts used (tissues like bone, cartilage that are added to the nose).
