Bandages
When you leave the operating room you will have a cast applied to your nose to help it maintain its shape and to protect it. Believe me: your nose will be extremely sensitive. This cast will remain in its place during a week, then it will be replaced by a soft plaster and Steri-strip tape that will be removed a week later.
If only the tip of the nose was modified, then a cast will not be necessary.

Amount of pain
Medium. Your physician will advice you to take analgesics every 6 or 8 hours; this will bring great relief to you.

Removal of the stitches
4 to 7 days after the surgery.

Bruises and swelling
The bruises and swelling will intensify during two or three days, before they begin to diminish. You may look like a boxer and it may be quite shocking for those around you, but you will feel much better than you look. Two weeks later, only you and your surgeon will be able to notice traces of the surgery. Cold compresses are very useful during the healing process. In one or two weeks more, your nose will have a completely normal appearance, but the definite results will be fully appreciated after six months. The tip is what takes longer to acquire its definite shape.
You may also notice some sporadic bleeding during a week or ten days, but this is normal and you should not be worried.

Scars
All the incisions are made inside the nose and remain unnoticed, except from those made on the base of the nose wings, if it is considered necessary to modify the width of the nostrils. However, these scars are very small and will become unnoticeable in no time.

Recovery
If it was necessary to modify the bone structure of the nose, you will have to rest at the hotel for 48 hours. A week after the surgery, you will be able to return to your social activities or job, if you do not mind to be seen with the bandage and the swelling. You will have to wait a bit longer before doing any hard work or physical exercise: a month or so, according to the special characteristics of your own healing process.
During the first days you will have to sleep with your head elevated so that the healing process will be free of complications.
During the first weeks, the patients tend to suffer from depression. You may find it difficult to come to terms with your new look and you may even feel that you made a terrible mistake in deciding to have a surgery. But you shouldn't worry. Most of the people who today are happy and satisfied with the results of a surgery have also gone through that phase.

Possible risks and complications
It is very unlikely for a rhinoplasty to present any complications when performed by a qualified surgeon. However, every surgical procedure, regardless of its triviality, has some risks and we should always think of them as a possibility.

• Asymmetry. Even though the surgeon marks very carefully the areas he is going to treat, there may be asymmetries. The nose is a crucial feature of the face and it is, literally speaking, always before our eyes, making any imperfection, no matter how trivial it may be, very noticeable. According to international statistics, rhinoplasties are the surgeries that have the highest rate of revision surgeries. These revisions, if necessary, may be carried out after six months.
• Adverse reactions to anesthesia.
• Infections, although they are very unusual if you take the right antibiotics.
• Hemorrhage.
• Appearance of small red dots on the skin due to broken capillaries which are, however, almost imperceptible.
• Deformities due to impacts or carelessness before the healing process is competed. Remember that your new nose will be quite fragile at first (that is why it is protected by a cast or tape) and that you will be responsible for taking care of it and for avoiding any kind of accident.

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