This surgery is usually practiced under general anaesthesia. However, in certain cases, a local anaesthesia deepened by sedatives can be possible. The choice between these various techniques will be discussed between you, the surgeon and the anaesthetist.
No hospitalisation is necessarily required. However according to some limitations, a short hospitalisation can be preferable.
Nevertheless you must know the possible complications: bleedings, possible the first hours but remain usually very moderate. When they are too important that can justify a packing (new dressings in the nostrils). Haematomas can require an evacuation if they are bulky or too painful. Infections are very rare in spite of the natural presence of microbes in the nasal fosse. If necessary, it justifies a suitable treatment. Anaesthetic scars, related only to the external scars (when they exist) and almost never require a surgical reintervention. Cutaneous bruising, although rare, they are possible, often consequence of the nasal splint. The simple wounds or erosions heal spontaneously without leaving traces, contrary to cutaneous necrosis, which fortunately leaves only a small scar.
They can result from a misunderstanding concerning the goals or occur because of unusual scaring phenomena or from unexpected tissue reactions such as a bad spontaneous re-adaptation of the skin or a retractile fibrosis. These small imperfections, if they are intolerable, can be corrected by a final surgical improvement, in general much simpler than the initial surgery, both from the technical point of view as the operational continuations. However such a final improvement cannot be performed before several months after the first surgery, given the need to work on stabilised tissue that has reached good scar maturation.
Minimal corrections–if necessary–should be performed at least one year after the surgery.
Fortunately, the true complications following a rhinoplasty are rare. In practise, the vast majority of the operations evolve without problems and the patients are fully satisfied with the result.
Nevertheless you must know the possible complications: bleedings, possible the first hours but remain usually very moderate. When they are too important that can justify a packing (new dressings in the nostrils). Haematomas can require an evacuation if they are bulky or too painful. Infections are very rare in spite of the natural presence of microbes in the nasal fosse. If necessary, it justifies a suitable treatment. Anaesthetic scars, related only to the external scars (when they exist) and almost never require a surgical reintervention. Cutaneous bruising, although rare, they are possible, often consequence of the nasal splint. The simple wounds or erosions heal spontaneously without leaving traces, contrary to cutaneous necrosis, which fortunately leaves only a small scar.
