Revision Rhinoplasty

Revision Rhinoplasty is required when the initial surgery doesn’t work out perfectly as it planned before. The revision surgery is usually referred as minor surgery as it is only performed to correct the minor errors which are resulted before. Through the revising process, you will have the surgeon to correct the mistakes, redo old nose job or just to hide scars. In this situation, you might need to get surgeon who focuses solely in revising which is often called as Irvine specialist. This kind of surgeon is well known for its expertise and skill to provide better result.

Why you should consider revision Rhinoplasty

The most reason everyone has for revision Rhinoplasty if to have the perfect appearance of their nose. Of course, if you have the same reason and you feel how dissatisfying the result is from the initial surgery. Furthermore, the secondary surgery is also necessary in order to correct physical problem such trauma or breathing difficulties. What reason you have, you always have to consider realistic expectation and communicate it with your surgeon.

Five things to consider before revision Rhinoplasty

To get the revision Rhinoplasty, you still need to review several main things related to your nose. This is somehow necessary to make sure that the surgeon knows what problem you are dealing with and what solution is the right for you.

What does your nose look like now?
What is your nose’s problem which needs to be corrected?
Is there any scarring from the past surgery? And how much is the scarring?
Is it actually possible to correct the mistake with revision surgery? You have to know that some problems are correctable and some others aren’t easily correctable. The difficult problems usually need several times of surgery
What is your mental state right now? In this case, you should have your surgeon to analyze it to find the answer whether you actually need the revision surgery to correct mistakes or it is just because you are addicted to the surgery. Of course, if your current mental state you have describes you to have addiction to it, your surgeon will tend to ignore your request due to medical reasons.

When you have done considering those 5 important things and your surgeon takes you as good candidate for revision Rhinoplasty, you can soon have it for your own goodness. Since the procedure for revision surgery is quite different, you need to ensure that the surgeon is qualified to conduct it. The procedure itself is different because the actual anatomy of your nose has changed after the initial surgery. This is the thing that makes your surgeon needs to thoroughly examine your current condition.