SECONDARY NOSE
 The reasons, for which a patient comes back to consultation after being operated, are generally related with unsatisfactory results, difficult breathing or consequences after surgery. Any alteration or improvement done in a secondary surgery of nose, should be carried out after six months or a year later, counted from the first surgery. In order to give time to the inflamed tissue can completely disappear.
 At appointment, el Dr. Jorge Alberto Espinosa Reyes evaluates your case carefully to analyze the possible changes and results. It’s necessary to study the motives that have produced the alteration. Your expectations are proved by computer and through a nasal analysis; is established the kind of problem and how to propose the reconstruction.
Frequent Questions
 ¿How many times can a nose be operated?
The perfect thing would be that nose was operated as least as possible. However, a patient that comes to consultation to treat an operated nose is someone full of uncertainty, who is dissatisfied with his/her own image and that worries a lot for the appearance Therefore, is someone eager for finding a solution to this problem.
It’s important to clarify that the nasal cavity tissues of an operated nose are already altered and react in a different way to healing. A secondary surgery of nose should get closer to problem, in a precise way through the most accurate diagnosis as possible.
¿Is it very complex a surgery of secondary nose?
Yes. The surgery of secondary nose is one of the most complex procedures inside the plastic surgery and needs of the widest experience from the surgeon.
¿When is necessary a graft?
It’s difficult to answer this question without having done an analysis of patient needs. Nevertheless, It’s generally necessary on secondary nose surgery when there has been an excessive resection of cartilages or of the wall tissues that form the nasal cavity, cartilage grafts are used as a way to replace all those removed parts in excess. All this, to achieve a more natural appearance and closer to patient expectations. Almost always these grafts are taken from the same nose that is being operated.
¿How it is the recovery?
The recovery use to be similar to a primary surgery of nose, with the difference that the final results are going to take a little longer to be evident as a consequence of inflammation.
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