The patient stays in the hospital for 1 day after the operation and is discharged to come for a check-up in 1 week. He spends this process in the hospital extremely painless and comfortable with head elevation, intermittent ice application to the eyes and medication. There is never an unbearably severe pain after surgery. Although slight pain may be felt, it is also controlled with ice application and painkillers. Postoperative ice application is extremely important for both pain control and preventing bruising and edema. For this, the patient should start applying ice as soon as he leaves the surgery and keep the ice pack over his eyes as long as he can stand it. This process continues until 24 hours after the surgery. After 24 hours, the ice will no longer have any effect.
The patient uses painkillers, antibiotics and antihistamines (for edema) during the 5-day period at the hotel. If open rhinoplasty is performed, antibiotic ointment is applied to the suture line under the nose 3 times a day for 1 week. For quick resolution of facial edema, if possible, he should lie on his back with a high pillow for 1 month, he can turn his head to the right and left provided that his nose is in the air. It is forbidden for the patient to lie on his side or prone for 1 month.
After removing the silicone splints, if any, or 24 hours after the operation if not applied, the nose should be washed daily with sea water or physiological saline for 1-4 weeks to be determined by the doctor.
For 5 days after the operation, the patient should not wet the external nasal splint and should not sweat. For this reason, if a bath is to be made, the head should not be wet, but a bath should be made from the neck down. The patient should come to have the external splint removed on the 5th postoperative day. A few hours before coming, he should have his head washed from the forehead to the nape, paying attention to the splint, by the hairdresser. In the meantime, even if the outer splint gets wet, there is no problem, because it will be removed on the same day.
After the external splint is removed, a paper tape is applied to the nose and remains for 1 week. The paper tape should not be wetted or sweaty just like the outer splint. After 1 week, the paper tape is also removed and the nose becomes completely unwrapped and open.
All sutures inside and outside the nostrils are self-absorbed within 1-2 weeks, they do not need to be removed.
It is important that the patient does not get traumatized to the nose, especially for 1 month after the surgery. Therefore, if possible, it is recommended not to use public transport too much, not to enter the crowd, not to stand behind the door, and not to take small children and pets on their laps.
If the patient uses glasses, they are allowed to wear them after 1 month. Again, not very heavy sports and swimming can be done after 1 month. Heavy sports can be started only after 3 months.
1 month after the operation, massages are started to be applied on the nose by hand, at least 3-4 times a day, for 3-6 months, as the physician will show, in order to quickly resolve the edema in the nose.
Controls 1st-3rd-6th in the first year after surgery. and at 12 months, then annually.
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