Rhinoplasty

This surgery is usually performed under general anesthesia. However, in some cases, deep local anesthesia with sedatives is possible. The choice between these different techniques will be discussed between you, the surgeon and the anesthesiologist. No hospitalization is necessarily required.

However, depending on certain constraints, a short hospitalization may be preferable. It is nevertheless necessary to be aware of the possible complications: bleeding, possible in the first hours but which most often remains very moderate. When they are too important this may justify conditioning (new dressings in the nostrils). Hematomas may require evacuation if they are large or too painful. Infections are very rare despite the natural presence of microbes in the nasal passages.

If necessary, they warrant appropriate treatment. Anesthetic scars, linked only to external scars (when they exist) and almost never require surgical reintervention. Skin bruising, although rare, is possible, often a consequence of the nasal splint.

Simple wounds or erosions heal spontaneously without leaving any traces, unlike skin necrosis, which fortunately only leaves a small scar. They may result from a misunderstanding of the objectives or occur because of unusual scarring phenomena or unexpected tissue reactions such as poor spontaneous rehabilitation of the skin or retractile fibrosis.

These small imperfections, if they are intolerable, can be corrected by a final surgical improvement, generally much simpler than the initial surgery, both from the technical point of view and from the post-operative point of view. However, such a final improvement cannot be achieved before several months after the first intervention, given the need to work on stabilized tissues that have reached good scar maturation.

Minimal corrections, if necessary, must be carried out at least one year after the procedure. Fortunately, real complications following rhinoplasty are rare. In practice, the vast majority of operations progress without problems and patients are fully satisfied with the result. However, you must be aware of the possible complications: bleeding, possible in the first hours but most often remains very moderate. When they are too important this may justify conditioning (new dressings in the nostrils).

Hematomas may require evacuation if they are large or too painful. Infections are very rare despite the natural presence of microbes in the nasal passages. If necessary, they warrant appropriate treatment.

Anesthetic scars, linked only to external scars (when they exist) and almost never require surgical reintervention. Skin bruising, although rare, is possible, often a consequence of the nasal splint. Simple wounds or erosions heal spontaneously without leaving any traces, unlike skin necrosis, which fortunately only leaves a small scar.