4 Types of Sinusitis
Sinusitis, without regards to what type of sinusitis it is, the medical condition is very common that affects more than 37 million people in the United States per year and it even costs around $5.7 billion. Despite how common sinusitis is, there are still plenty of people who misunderstood and do not know how to properly manage the problem. As a matter of fact, many people who are suffering from sinusitis think that they are suffering...
Home Remedies for Chronic Sinusitis
Sinusitis is a medical condition wherein there is an inflammation and swelling of the sinuses or the cavities surrounding the nasal passages. There are two major kinds of sinusitis, depending on how long the sinusitis is persisting, the acute sinusitis and the chronic sinusitis. In acute sinusitis, sinusitis lasts for no longer than 12 weeks or 3 months, while chronic sinusitis is a kind of sinusitis that lasts for 12 weeks or longer...
Medical Treatments for Chronic Sinusitis
Findings show that sinusitis, whether it is acute sinusitis or chronic sinusitis, affect about 37 million people in the United States of America every single year according to webmd.com. Even though chronic sinusitis is quite common, chronic sinusitis is often misunderstood. Misunderstood in such a way that people who are suffering from the disease rush to the drugstore and buy medications without even consulting with a medical doctor...
Natural Cures for Nasal Blockage
There are a lot of different reasons for nasal blockage. Treatments or remedies for nasal blockage will greatly depend on the exact causative factor. There are 2 major types of treatments for nasal blockage, the medical treatment and the surgical treatment. When your nasal blockage is in need to undergo surgical treatment just for your nasal breathing to improve, then most likely, the cause of your nasal blockage is a deviated septum...
Cures for Nasal Blockage
Nasal blockage can be caused by many different causative factors. Depending on the exact cause of the nasal blockage, treatment modalities or therapies will differ, may it be surgical treatments or medical treatments. When surgical treatment for nasal blockage, one of the most common causes is deviated septum. Deviated septum is a medical condition wherein there is an anatomical abnormality in the nasal septum (thin cartilage...
Nasal Blockage and Deviated Septum
Not all people realize how important it is to normally breathe through the nose. Many people realize the importance of normal nasal breathing only when they will suffer from nasal obstruction. There are several possible causes for nasal obstruction, which can then cause mild nasal obstruction to severe nasal obstruction. The treatment or remedy for the nasal obstruction will greatly depend on the causative factor of the condition. ...
External Nasal Valve Collapse and Functional Rhinoplasty
Functional rhinoplasty is one of the many several different types of rhinoplasty. The main and primary purpose why functional rhinoplasty will be performed is to reconstruct the anatomical structure of the nose to improve nasal breathing. Functional rhinoplasty is not done with a cosmetic purpose but for health purposes. Not all people are candidates to undergo functional rhinoplasty. Functional rhinoplasty will be indicated if the...
Inferior Turbinate Hypertrophy and Functional Rhinoplasty
Functional rhinoplasty is a type of rhinoplasty that is done with one purpose, to improve the patient’s breathing through the nose. One of the most common reasons or indications for a patient to undergo functional rhinoplasty is an abnormality to the patient’s anatomical structures of the nose. However, not all abnormalities of the nose’s anatomical structures will need to be corrected through functional rhinoplasty. If abnormalities...
Risks and Benefits of Functional Rhinoplasty
Functional rhinoplasty is a specific type of rhinoplasty done to improve the patient’s breathing pattern through the nose and get rid of symptoms brought about abnormalities in the anatomical features of the nose. Most of the time, functional rhinoplasty is done to patients complaining of nasal obstruction due to deviated septum. If a patient has a deviated septum, septoplasty (surgery to fix a deviated septum) is done together with...
How is Functional Rhinoplasty Performed?
There are several different types of rhinoplasty, when it comes to how the rhinoplasty procedure is performed and what is the main purpose and goal of the rhinoplasty procedure. There is one type of rhinoplasty that is specifically done to help the patient improve his or her breathing patterns, due to a nasal obstruction caused by a deviated septum, trauma to the nose, injury to the nose, etc. The type of rhinoplasty I am referring to...
Functional Rhinoplasty
Rhinoplasty has 2 different purposes, for cosmetic purposes and for functional purposes. In functional rhinoplasty, rhinoplasty is done to help the patient breathe better. There are some cases of functional rhinoplasty that do not involve changing the shape and appearance of the external area of the nose. Functional rhinoplasty may only require doing some changes in the internal structures of the nose to help the patient breathe...
Rhinoplasty Benefits
Not all patients find one certain benefit or certain benefits when getting a rhinoplasty or nose job. Each patient will have a different benefit from another patient, since not all patients get the same type of rhinoplasty and not all patients have the same desired results from their rhinoplasty surgery. However, even though not all patients undergo the same type of rhinoplasty and not all patients have the same desired results, the...
The First 48 Hours Post Rhinoplasty
Most patients who just underwent any surgical procedures, not just surgical rhinoplasty, can attest that the most difficult and painful period after any surgical procedures is during the first 48 hours. It is during the first 48 hours when the anesthesia given to the patient for the patient not to feel any pain and discomforts during the surgical procedure will start to wear off. Together with the wearing off of the effects of...
Post-Operative Care for Rhinoplasty
During the post-operative phase in any surgical procedures, not just rhinoplasty, will really need some patience. For surgical rhinoplasty, it will usually take at least 2 weeks for the nose to heal or even longer. Since in rhinoplasty, there are alterations and changes done in the connective tissues (bones and cartilages) in the nose and there are times that nose implants are even placed, it will normally take time for the body to...
Pain Post Rhinoplasty
It is inevitable for pain to happen during rhinoplasty procedure and after rhinoplasty procedure. Pain is the most common side effect or complains of everyone who underwent rhinoplasty. However, not all people have the same or similar perception of pain, since pain perception differs from each and everyone due to different pain threshold and pain tolerance of every person. Pain post rhinoplasty will also depend on what type of...
Post Rhinoplasty Discomforts
It is very normal for patients to undergo post operative discomforts from any type of surgical rhinoplasty. May it be open rhinoplasty, closed rhinoplasty, augmentation rhinoplasty, autologous cartilage graft rhinoplasty, etc. However, it is quite unusual if discomforts will occur post non-surgical rhinoplasty, when in fact, patients after their appointments from non-surgical rhinoplasty can instantly return and do their activities of...
Contraindications of Augmentation Rhinoplasty
For those patients who want to have their nose augmented, or increase the size of their noses for a better physical appearance, then they may want to take augmentation rhinoplasty as a possible option. In fact, augmentation rhinoplasty can even be done to correct a deviated septum. Augmentation rhinoplasty is not one of the 3 types of rhinoplasties, but augmentation rhinoplasty is a type of rhinoplasty that can be done in two...
How is Autologous Cartilage Graft Rhinoplasty Done?
There are some cases where patients have to undergo an autologous cartilage graft rhinoplasty, and not have artificial nose implants. When speaking about risks and possible complications after getting a nose job, using artificial implants are much more dangerous than using nose implants that are not artificial and are taken from the patient’s own body. In the case of autologous cartilage graft rhinoplasty, the patient’s own cartilage...
Autologous Cartilage Graft Rhinoplasty
There are several different ways on how to perform rhinoplasty, either surgically or non-surgically. In non-surgical rhinoplasty, dermal fillers are injected to certain regions of the nose to fill gaps within the nose, while surgical rhinoplasty (either closed rhinoplasty or open rhinoplasty) uses implants (either artificial or natural implants) to make the nose look better. One type of rhinoplasty, the augmentation rhinoplasty always...
Augmentation Rhinoplasty
Augmentation rhinoplasty is not one of the 3 major types of rhinoplasty, but it is considered to be a subtype of closed rhinoplasty and open rhinoplasty. In performing the surgical procedure augmentation rhinoplasty, the surgeon has 2 options on how he or she wants to perform it, either closed rhinoplasty or open rhinoplasty. For how the augmentation rhinoplasty will be performed, the surgeon will have to talk based it on the effect...
