Revision Rhinoplasty
Some patients may not be satisfied after rhinoplasty. New problems may develop after the surgery or the patient’s expectation may not be met. In such cases, the problems that have occurred in the nose are tried to be eliminated with a new surgery and corrections that can be made in line with the patient’s wishes are made.
In short, revision rhinoplasty is the correction of the nose in terms of aesthetics and function by re-operating the patients who have undergone at least one operation for aesthetic or functional purposes. In patients whose problems do not go away or who think that their problems continue despite having rhinoplasty, at least 6 months or 1 year should be waited for revision surgery.
The recovery process in revision surgeries may take a little longer than the first operation. Since the tissues are more adherent due to the first surgery, the surgical application will be more difficult.
Revision surgery differs from primary surgery. During rhinoplasty, we need some tissues, primarily cartilage tissue.
In the first operations, this cartilage reserve is present in the middle part of the nose called the “septum”. However, in revision surgeries, since this cartilage tissue needed is used in the previous surgery, it can sometimes be insufficient. For this reason, we can obtain our cartilage need from cartilage tissues in different parts of the body.
In particular, cartilage taken from ear cartilage or ribs are the most reliable and useful materials. If we need a small cartilage, it is possible to obtain cartilage with a small incision made behind the ear without creating deformity. In larger deformities, however, since this cartilage taken from the ear will not be sufficient, cartilage should be taken from the rib at the level of the breast line as an alternative.