Secondary (Revision) Nose Surgery

Patient satisfaction can be at its maximum especially when patients are able to convey their expectations accurately to their doctor and the doctor explains accurately to the patient what he or she can do.

However, if for various reasons the desired results could not be obtained in the first operation, it may be necessary to operate on the patient again. Even in the most experienced hands, the need for a second operation can be around 10%. In Plastic Surgery, a doctor operating again on their own patient because of a problem arising in a nose operation they performed or because of patient dissatisfaction is called REVISION NASOPLASTY; carrying out corrective procedures on a patient operated on by another doctor, or correcting deformities resulting from trauma, is called SECONDARY NASOPLASTY.

Patients must not forget that at the end of three months after surgery only 80% of the swelling will have resolved, and that the nose will only take on its true appearance at the end of the 1st year. In second (repeat) operations, the problem should be identified as precisely as possible, and surgery should be directed only at that problem. Unnecessary surgical interventions prolong the healing process and increase the risk of surgical complications.

For each procedure on the nose, at least 6 months, preferably one year, should be allowed to pass since the previous procedure. Procedures performed earlier may do more harm than good. Having the second operation performed, as far as possible, by the doctor who performed the first operation is a factor that increases the chance of success.

Because the doctor who performed the first operation knows better how much cartilage was left in the nose during that operation and where cartilage can be taken from, he or she can reach the result without increasing the risk of the operation.