breathing after rhinoplasty

Dose breathing through the nose get worse after rhinoplasty?

Although the nose usually become smaller in rhinoplasty surgical operation, but if the surgery is done carefully and with proper technique, such shrinking does not occur in the air pathway and the breathing would not be affected. However, normally until 1-3 months after the surgery, a small amount of nasal congestion may be existed due to swelling inside the nose, which should be then improved.

Otherwise, the problem must be followed up and fixed. In patients with allergic rhinitis, the allergies aggravate sometimes up to a year after rhinoplasty, which may need to take more medicine. However, the breathing must be improved by using proper anti-allergic drugs. Sometimes, remained deviation inside the nose, and sometimes previous enlarged turbinates or nasal inward movement or escalated turbinates enlargement could be the reason for such obstruction. Rarely, cartilages overlapping may cause such breathing difficulties.

All of these rarely occur in hands of a good surgeon, and even if happening, they can easily be fixed. In fact, after a good rhinoplasty, the patient’s breathing condition becomes better than before (of course, after 1 to 3 months) or does not change at all. Worsening is not normal in any way, except in cases of allergies, which can be relieved with medication.