Re: Wide nose

[Guest guest]

What is up with the wide nose? I thought I was the only one until I

kept reading. My nose is really wide. Not turned up or anything just

wide. I hope it is the swelling. I'm only 17 days post-op. Please let

it be the swelling!!!!!!!!

[Guest guest]

For what it is worth....

When I underwent surgery, I had a long upper jaw (not extremely), and

short lower jaw, thus a marvelous overbite and assymetry all over the

place.... upper jaw right of midline, lower jaw left of midline, and

chin further left of lowerjaw.... Yikes, huh?!?! AND I inherited a

marvelous nose: very large and oh so prominent on my face, complete

with a bony bend near the bridge of my nose- a characteristically

Jewish nose according to my Jewish boyfriend, and since my upper jaw

was to the right of my midline, so also was my nose!!!

On 3/9/05, I had Upper- palatal split to widen, jaw moved up and

rotated to correct the assymetry and one wisdom tooth removed, Lower-

jaw extended out and rotated to correct assymetry, and genio- chin

further out out and rotated to correct assymetry with a bone graft.

When I asked, my surgeon said swelling might have a slight and

temporary affect on my nose. Ultimately it did not. I never noticed

any difference in my nose. It is not wider, longer, shorter, turned

up, Nothing. And it is still right of my midline! I've always been

accused of being a little " crooked " ha ha. My surgeon definitely EYED

my nose with interest and would have been glad to make some

changes.... But I made it very clear that my boyfriend was

appropriately fond of my nose the way it is! It's supposedly my

defining character piece, or something like that. So, even with the

wider, rearranged upper jaw, my nose is unchanged.

The happy result is that I appear to have had a nose job because the

proportions of my face are so improved. Now that I have a lower jaw

and chin, my nose seems more proportional in size and not so damned

LARGE! I nose job without a nose job. Worked for me!

If anyone is recently out of surgery, I would not yet panic about

your nose. Definitely discuss it with your surgeon, though. I had and

still have a bit of residual swelling... for me it is in my chin

because so much work was done there. The swelling, particularly

internally can take a long, long time to finally reduce. Each of us

is unique in our swelling and bruising.... That said, when I was

freaking out prior to my surgery with 500 reservations and questions

and concerns, I read on this board about individuals with permanently

changed- wider noses as a " side effect " of the surgery. It IS

possible, but also is not the rule. Ask your surgeon, each knows his

own work best. My surgeon was confident that my nose would be

unaffected in my outcome (especially since I wouldn't let him touch

it!). Lastly, keep in mind that we all have different facial dynamics

that they are working with when they undertake the surgery on each of

us.

Ok, I guess I had a lot of thoughts about wide noses. I hope this

is helpful. And I am sorry to those who have had effects from their

surgery that they aren't happy with- my nose is ok, but now my bite

seems canted and of course inside I am freaking out about that! It's

always SOMETHING!

Take care and good luck,

Katja

[Guest guest]

my nose is much wider and i wish I never had the surgery because of

it ,I am 4 weeks post op,and my nose has gone down a little but still

looks wide and short and nothing like my pre op nose.People who see me

now dont comment on my jaw/chin just my nose. I am still swollen

however chipmunk cheeks etc especially in the morning and lasts thru

the day the swelling only goes down at night and on random days,for

anyone on the boards is it normal for the swelling to be so

tempremental,also my face feels very heavy and tight?

> What is up with the wide nose? I thought I was the only one until I

> kept reading. My nose is really wide. Not turned up or anything just

> wide. I hope it is the swelling. I'm only 17 days post-op. Please

let

> it be the swelling!!!!!!!!