How rhinoplasty works

  1.What is rhinoplasty?  Rhinoplasty is an operation to improve the appearance of the nose by filling the nose with various autologous or allogeneic tissues or tissue substitutes to pad the external nose.  2.What kind of nose is considered good-looking?  Which kind of nose looks good? Can we give a standard for the beauty of the nose? This is influenced by culture, customs, habits and aesthetic concepts. The ideal nose shape is not consistent from country to country, from nation to nation, and from person to person. As far as our Han nation is concerned, the normal and beautiful nose is a bottom-facing trigon, located in the middle 1/3 of the face; the ideal length of the external nose is 1/3 of the length of the face; the ideal width of the external nose is the width of a glance, which is what our ancient painters called “horizontal three”, “vertical five “The ideal nasal shape is oblique with a narrow top and a wide bottom, and its oblique surface intersects with the face at 25-30 degrees; the ideal nasal tip height is 1/3 of the length of the nose, the tip of the nose is pointed and round, the nostrils are flat and round, and the nasal small column is 90 degrees from the upper lip.  3.What are the commonly used materials for rhinoplasty?  At present, the more clinically used nasal filling material is medical solid silicone rubber. Sometimes it is also possible to use autologous bone or cartilage tissue. Medical solid silicone rubber has the advantages of stable performance, low irritation, moderate texture, can be pre-shaped, can be kept in the body for a long time without deformation, easy to deal with postoperative complications and unsatisfactory appearance, and no adverse reactions when used correctly, etc. It is the longest, most abundant and most widely used material for rhinoplasty in clinical practice.  4.How to do rhinoplasty?  Rhinoplasty is usually performed under local anesthesia, a skin incision is made in one side of the nostril (usually the right side) along the anterior edge of the medial and lateral feet of the nasal cartilage, a subtle separation is made under the nasal dorsal fascia by means of an instrument to form the corresponding tunnel, a nasal model is implanted, and then the nasal shape after implantation is observed from the front and side, usually the distal end of the implant is best to reach the midpoint of the line between the eyebrow and the medial canthus, that is, the ” golden point”. If the length and height of the implant are suitable and the curve of the nose is harmonious and natural, the skin incision can be closed and a beautiful nose will be born.  5.How to take care of the nose after rhinoplasty?  After surgery, antibiotic ointment is applied on the wound, the exterior of the nose is fixed with cotton pad and impression adhesive or not, oral antibiotics are taken for 3-5 days to prevent infection, facial edema or even “nasal swelling” is the normal post-operative reaction process in 2-3 days, which usually starts to subside on the 4th day after surgery, and sutures are removed on 6-7 days after surgery.  6.How long does it take to recover after rhinoplasty?  Due to the implantation of prosthetic material in the nose, the patient will experience discomfort after surgery and it will take about a few weeks or a month to return to the condition before surgery. Some people are able to return to normal work within 1 week after surgery, while others take 2-3 weeks to return to normal work. Generally speaking, after 1-3 months of recovery after surgery, a new and perfect nose shape will be revealed to the public.