One week after rhinoplastysurgery, I recommend massage to our patients after the plaster placed on the nose is removed. What good does this do?
The nose is an organ covered with skin on the bone and cartilage tissue located in the midline of our face. During the surgery, we remove this skin layer to shape the bones and cartilages without disturbing the vascular lymph circulation that feeds it. This makes it easier to work inside. After the Rhinoplasty surgery is completed and the necessary shape is created, the skin tissue is glued onto this layer and a plaster cast is applied to prevent the broken bone tissues from fusing properly and to prevent edema by accumulating excess fluid between the skin and the surgical tissue. After a week, when the bone has healed a little and other tissues have adhered, the plaster cast is removed. In the following period, the nose becomes a little edema and swells.
There are two reasons for this:
Firstly, when the pressure on them is removed after the plaster is removed, the tissues swell and the veins and veins in the skin become swollen. especially the decrease in lymph circulation. After this stage, massage along with oral anti-edema medications are very useful to reduce healing and edema.
The purpose of the massage is to increase the lymph circulation of the skin on the back of the nose and to relieve the edema due to the accumulation of fluid just under it. In this way, fluid accumulation and edema between the shaped bone and cartilage tissue and the skin on the nasal dorsum are minimized, thus preserving the shape created during the surgery. recommended. During rhinoplasty surgery, being careful when lifting the nasal dorsum skin and breaking the nasal bone to shape it and not damaging these anatomical tissues is also a very important factor that helps healing. That's why I always perform dissection without damaging the musculoaponeurotic layer of the skin, that is, the vascular nerve lymph circulation, and I always try to cause minimum damage to these tissues by performing the bone with the tunnel technique.
In this way, at the end of the surgery, swelling and bruising under the eyes will be minimal, while the plaster cast will be minimal. post- The need for massage remains minimal.
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