Posted August 06, 2010 in Blog, Rhinoplasty, Uncategorized
A patient recently asked about her nose 6 days after her rhinoplasty by another surgeon, “Why is my post-op profile identical to my pre-op profile?” Here is my answer: Don’t fret! Be patient and you should see your profile improve week by week over the year. If your nose had the perfect desired profile curve at this point, you might be happy for a year or two, but in 5 to 10 years your nose will have “shrunk-wrapped” into a obviously “done-rhinoplasty” nose. Listen to your rhinoplasty surgeon. He/she was there, felt and sculpted your nose, and saw it before the swelling occurred. It looks as if you are a beautiful woman, and that you will have a beautiful nose and profile. Please let us know how things go over the next few months.
If you are an old time TV fan, there was an episode of “The Danny Thomas” show where Danny (a large Lebanese profile nose) decides to get a rhinoplasty against his family’s wishes. He goes ahead with the surgery anyway, no one in the family speaks to him for the week that the cast is on. Danny realizes that he made a mistake and wishes that he had not done the operation, it wasn’t worth losing his identity with his family. On the day the surgeon takes off the splint, his nose is exactly the same. The surgeon told him that he knew that he really didn’t need to change his nose to change his life, so the surgeon only put the splint on his nose.
Danny was happy, his family was happy, and you too should be happy once your nose settles. There is nothing to do at this point anyway for at least 6 to 12 months.
Good luck and be well.
Dr. P
Dr Persky is located in Encino, California but services all of Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. Including, Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Santa Monica, Malibu, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Calabasas, Woodland Hills, Tarzana and Agoura Hills and more.
