Your nose is an integral component of your respiratory system and serves multiple roles within it: providing air entry into your body, sensing smell, filtering warm air through its filters and moistening before passing it onward to the lungs.
Reducing the size of your nose through reduction rhinoplasty involves extracting cartilage and bone. It may also aim to address specific areas such as hump or bump reduction.
Enlarged Polyps
Nasal polyps are benign soft growths found within your nose and sinuses that do not produce pain; small ones might not present with symptoms; however, larger polyps or groups can block nasal passages causing breathing issues and the loss of scent. While medication may sometimes shrink or remove them entirely; surgery might also be required.
Your general practitioner can initially diagnose issues with your sinuses before referring you to an ENT (otolaryngologist). People who develop nasal polyps often also suffer from asthma; therefore, the ENT will examine you by looking into both nostrils and sinuses as well as doing CT scans on them to detect whether polyps are increasing quickly or decreasing over time. The CT scan can show which size and how fast any polyps are growing over time.
Medicines may help relieve or prevent symptoms associated with nasal polyps, while nasal steroid sprays may reduce or shrink their size and clear blocked nasal passages or reduce swelling in your nose and sinuses. Unfortunately, the effects don’t last forever and polyps may reappear after discontinuing treatment.
Antihistamines can prevent allergic reactions from contributing to chronic sinus inflammation; while corticosteroids help decrease nose and sinus swelling.
Some medicines can be taken orally while others must be administered in hospital or clinic settings. If your ENT suspects a malignant nasal polyp, he or she might order an endoscopic biopsy to check for signs of cancer in its tissues.
If medication fails to reduce or remove polyps, surgery might be required. One possible approach is polypectomy – which involves extracting polyps and expanding sinus openings – while endoscopic sinus surgery involves inserting a thin, lighted tube with tiny cameras and tools called an endoscope into each nostril, so that a surgeon can use this advanced procedure to find and remove polyps as well as address whatever caused them.
Deviated Septum
A nasal septum is the thin wall of cartilage separating right and left nostrils. A deviated septum occurs when this part of the nose shifts toward one side. While in most cases the deviation is minor and doesn’t necessitate treatment, in rare cases it may cause blocked nasal passages, sinus infections or even snoring; should this occur then seeking medical advice can provide treatment that will solve both issues at hand as well as alleviate symptoms. For optimal care visit your physician who will offer solutions that will resolve issues and treat symptoms at once!
Step one in treating a deviated septum should involve consulting their primary care physician or an ENT specialist, who will use a bright light and nasal speculum to examine the inside of their nose to ascertain the degree of deviation. They may also suggest allergy treatment to reduce any swelling that exacerbates symptoms related to septal deviation.
Antihistamines and steroid sprays may help to temporarily relieve congestion in your nasal passages and ease pressure on the septum, but this won’t solve the underlying cause; similar solutions such as adhesive strips may temporarily alleviate congestion but not address its source.
People suffering from septal deviation will benefit from an outpatient surgical procedure known as septoplasty, in which an experienced surgeon removes damaged portions of their septum before realigning them to their correct positions. Usually this surgery takes place under local anesthesia or sedation.
Septoplasty can restore normal airflow through the nose and sinuses, decrease snoring and eliminate recurrent nasal blockages. While medications and treatments can alleviate some symptoms associated with septal deviation, they cannot completely reverse it. When symptoms interfere with daily life and medical treatments cannot provide relief, surgery may be the answer – contact us now if you’ve been struggling to find relief from deviated septum symptoms without success! We invite you to arrange an appointment with our team.
Bony Structures
Narrow nostrils can present significant challenges to breathing and lead to excess mucous accumulation, leading to deviated septum deviation, turbinate hypertrophy or nasal valve collapse; all conditions which may have congenital or acquired causes. If conservative treatments such as decongestants, anti-allergy medicines or nasal steroid sprays fail to improve symptoms then surgery may be recommended as an option.
Bone tissue, or osseous tissue, stands out from other tissues in the body by its dynamic characteristics and hard surface. While bone is rigid in appearance, its shape changes dynamically according to stresses on it; when these pressures subside it returns back into its original form in what’s known as the bone remodeling cycle.
Your bones have an outer layer known as compact bone that is dense. Within its dense structure are spaces known as marrow cavities, which contain blood vessels and nerves. Between these spaces are structures called canaliculi that transport blood throughout your bones; these canaliculi are surrounded by osteocytes (cells found within bone matrix that help form and grow bone), and canaliculi are covered by an area known as lacunae which contain osteoblasts responsible for creating or repairing bone formation and repair. At each osteon is located a hollow space called lacunae containing osteoblasts who specialize in building or repairing bone formation/repair/repairment processes.
Long bones contain spongy areas known as epiphysis that are filled with red bone marrow and contain the metaphyseal plate, where growth takes place.
As your body develops, the soft endpoints of bones form and ultimately meet to form long bones called diaphyses. At each long bone’s tip is an area known as an epiphyseal plate containing an empty space which may eventually fill with cartilage or bone to complete its structure.
Elongation occurs throughout the body and is essential to its healthy development and growth. At certain points in time, epiphysis grows faster than metaphyseal plate, creating wider sections at the ends of long bones or an epiphyseal line.
Nose Size
The nose is the gateway to our respiratory tracts and plays an essential role in warming, moistening, and filtering air before it enters our lungs. Unfortunately, genetics and natural aging processes may lead to your nose becoming larger or even have noticeable bumps that cause discomfort as well as contributing to sleep apnea. This may significantly impact quality of life.
The nasal septum is a thin wall of bone and cartilage separating each nostril, designed to help direct airflow between them. Though its purpose should be airflow control, many individuals suffer from deviated septa which causes congestion or other issues in their breathing passages. TNAP offers minimally invasive solutions to fix deviated septums to increase nasal airflow.
Crooked Nose
Rhinoplasty surgery allows us to correct crookedness in a nose that causes breathing issues by realigning its cartilage into an even straighter form and shifting or adding further cartilage as part of an overall corrective solution. We will work to sculpt away at its crookiness until its straighter surface can alleviate breathing problems more effectively.
Wide Nose
If your nose is too large for your face, surgery may be needed to narrow it. This procedure entails altering the size and positioning of nasal bones as well as shifting cartilage to narrow your nose.
Inferior Turbinates
Your inferior turbinates are small structures inside of your nose that help warm and moisten air as it passes through the nasal cavity. If they become enlarged due to allergies or sinus inflammation, they can block airflow and contribute to congestion. With our Turbinate Reduction service we can reduce their size through cauterization, coblation or radiofrequency ablation for faster relief from congestion and breathing issues.
if you are experiencing breathing problems, an experienced plastic surgeon can determine which treatments will work best for your nose and sinuses. We may perform a nasal endoscopy to look inside your nostrils, as well as more comprehensive tests like CT scanning or MRI imaging. Nasendoplasty uses dermal fillers instead of surgery as a way to treat issues without surgery; this solution can also be useful if medical conditions do not qualify you for it.
