Rhinoplasty & Troubled Breathing

Imagine seeing a rhinoplasty surgeon about a nose job and discovering your breathing is blocked and unhealthy.

It happens a lot. So it’s not for nothing that rhinoplasty surgeons – make that master rhinoplasty surgeons – offer a procedure known as septorhinoplasty, a nasal surgery that cosmetically improves the shape of a nose while – during the same surgical session – restores the septum to its rightful place and unblocks a  nasal breathing channel.

The septum, a thin wall of bone and cartilage separating your two nostrils, is easily displaced via:

• Birth
• Accidents
• Sports injuries
• Disagreements involving male fistfights

Patient Sandra P. penned a letter after she came in to eliminate a bump on her nose and found she also had obstructions in a nasal breathing channel caused by a broken nose two decades ago. (Continued below.)

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A nose that is bent, twisted or crooked usually has blocked breathing, too. In the patient before surgery photo below, left, a deviated septum leans into a nostril, blocking breathing. The right hand picture, taken three months after septoplasty, shows an unblocked nose that allows healthy breathing. (Robert Kotler, M.D.photo.)

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(Continued.) Moreover, Sandra’s hubby noticed she had a snoring problem at night. Result? She had septorhinoplasty to correct both breathing and appearance. Sandra’s take? She writes her nose job fits her face so well and looks so natural “my own sister did not notice I had rhinoplasty….Also, I can breathe better than I have in twenty years!”

(Read more nasal surgery patient reviews.)

Our patient J. G. had surgery on a deviated septum from a plastic surgeon who J.G. says was “one of the best nose surgeons in Texas.” Nonetheless, the surgery failed and J.G’s breathing situation became worse. Having been burned once and now being twice cautious, J.G. spent two months doing global research on nasal surgeons and came to us to finally repair the septum. She concludes: “I will never again settle for a good or even a great surgeon because it is just too risky. I will always go right to the very best without hesitation…”

Additional nasal surgery is often done to structures in the upper nose known as turbinates which are prone to swelling and blocking breathing.

(Read more about turbinate reduction surgery.)

Sometimes, it works the other way around. Patient T.D. wanted to correct a deviated septum and found it’s cost-effective, convenient and an overall savings of travel and recovery time to have several nose procedures like rhinoplasty done at once.