Deviated Septum Repair: Happy Patients
You’ve already read how a deviated septum or enlarged turbinates in your nose can block your breathing and cause many health woes, including being assigned a CPAP (continuous positive air pressure)...
View ArticleSeptoplasty and Sinus Infections
Many patients ask plastic surgeons about septoplasty, the surgical procedure to correct a bent or deviated septum. But too often they complain that the skewed septum is causing them far too many bouts...
View ArticleDeviated Septum and Mouth Breathing
Mother Nature designed humans to breathe through their noses, so people who breathe through their mouths during the day and/or at night should consider that particular type of breathing a medical...
View ArticleDeviated Septum: What to Do after Surgery
Before you leave your visit with your nasal surgeon, ask if he or she has a printed what-to-do-after-surgery instruction sheet. If your surgeon does not mention it, ask if you should also have...
View ArticleDeviated Septum Revision: What is It?
It’s more important than ever when you need nasal surgery to correct a bent, or deviated septum to find a nasal surgeon who is a master of septoplasty, the procedure that corrects a bent or twisted...
View ArticleDeviated Septum Surgery Patients Write In
In advertising, everybody knows that nothing sells like word of mouth. If that’s the case, more and more people who use a CPAP are ponying up (or, having their insurance companies pony up!) for nasal...
View ArticleFall Allergies – Sinus or Something Else Nasal?
For too many of us, spring and fall equal nasal congestion. With the air full of dust and pollen trapped on falling leaves – plus a few early summer and winter colds in development – it can be a season...
View ArticleDeviated Septum Surgery: Worth It?
You’ve had breathing problems for years which might include angering your bed mate due to freight train level noise from snoring. Plus, your nose may lean to one side or look crooked to others. In...
View ArticleDeviated Septum Surgery Complications – Rare, but Possible
Any cosmetic or nasal surgery offers both benefits and some usual, typical – but rare – complications. So wise plastic surgeons go ahead with procedures when the benefits outweigh any possible risks....
View ArticleAfter Deviated Septum Surgery: Why the Bleeding?
A member of a forum for people concerned with deviated septums and septoplasty, the surgery restoring a bent septum from the breathing channel, was curious why his nose started bleeding three hours...
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