Because your nose takes such a central role in your facial features, feeling self-conscious about it can affect your confidence. If your nose bothers you, you may have a rhinoplasty to reshape or sculpt it. For most people, rhinoplasty is a transformative procedure with positive results. If your results are less than positive, revision rhinoplasty can achieve the nose you hoped for.
What is Revision Rhinoplasty?
Rhinoplasty is a widely popular type of plastic surgery that corrects issues with the shape, symmetry or other aspects of the nose. It can also correct breathing issues related to the nose, especially the septum. However, rhinoplasty results do not always turn out like you expected. Revision rhinoplasty corrects the effects of a previous procedure to restore your confidence. As a board-certified facial plastic surgeon, Dr. Stein has the skill and experience to perform this particularly challenging surgery.
Am I a Candidate for Revision Rhinoplasty?
Revision rhinoplasty is intended to correct the results of a past rhinoplasty that did not provide satisfactory results. If you have negative results you hope to fix, a consultation with Dr. Stein will determine whether revision rhinoplasty can help. Several factors affect whether you are a good candidate for this procedure:
- It has been at least six months and preferably a year since your original procedure
- You have reasonable expectations
- You are in good health
- You understand the risks and benefits of the procedure
Good candidates may have aesthetic concerns, functional issues, or both. If less-than-ideal rhinoplasty results have left you feeling self-conscious and frustrated, a revision procedure might be the best solution.
What Does Revision Rhinoplasty Treat?
People may want revision rhinoplasty for many reasons, but they usually fall into two general categories. For some people, the procedure did not make them look worse, but it did not achieve the look they expected. For others, the procedure actively created a negative result that must be corrected with revision.
Revision rhinoplasty is so technically challenging that only experienced plastic surgeons should perform it. Your nose will usually have scar tissue and other changes resulting from the previous surgery that make it harder to work on. When performed by a skilled surgeon like Dr. Stein, most people can finally see their desired results.
What is Recovery Like After Revision Rhinoplasty?
You can expect the recovery after your revision rhinoplasty to feel much like the recovery after your initial procedure. If you need extensive corrections, you may experience more swelling or bruising than before. These effects will start to fade after the first week or two, and most people return to work after about two weeks. You can expect your results to evolve and settle for up to a year.
Take the Next Step
Are you interested in revision rhinoplasty? If you would like to schedule an in-person consultation, please contact us and one of our knowledgeable medical staff members at Stein Plastic Surgery will reach out to you promptly.
Stein Plastic Surgery is located in the Raleigh, Durham, and Southeast NC areas serving patients.
