After Surgery

Dr Chaplin will visit you later in the day and discuss the procedure and post operative care. If you are staying the night in hospital he will visit the following morning.
Packing is very rarely used in nasal surgery but if it is it will be taken out prior to discharge.

There will be a splint on the outside of the nose following rhinoplasty and facial compression dressings after chin implant surgery. In an external rhinoplasty there are stitches around the columella that need to be removed at one week.

You will be asked to gently apply ointment that will be supplied to this wound.

A follow up appointment will be made prior to discharge.

There will be bruising and swelling that is often worse 2-3 days after discharge from hospital. Over the next 3-4 days this settles rapidly. There is some swelling of the nasal skin which lasts several months and gradually settles. The final results are usually evident at around one year.

It is important not to perform strenuous exercise in the week following surgery this includes gym classes, weight lifting, running and swimming.

Showering is permitted but you will be asked not to get the tapes and splint wet as this will loosen it and it will come off.