Septoplasty: reviews after surgery

Difficulties with health can have a diverse nature. So, for example, the curvature of the nasal septum only at first glance seems to be an insignificant physical defect that does not affect human life. Nevertheless, this phenomenon (no matter whether it is innate or acquired) can lead to a lot of other unpleasant consequences. Does your husband snore for years? Is it difficult for your child to breathe through the nose? Do you often have a headache? The reason may lie in the deformation of the nasal septum. This deficiency can not be corrected without surgery. It has a specific name - septoplasty. With its help, you can fix a curved septum and permanently get rid of the unpleasant symptoms that have accompanied you for a long time. What is this operation? How is it tolerated by patients? What do they say about their feelings during the procedure, and also during the postoperative period? How soon can I return to normal life? Can everyone be prescribed septoplasty? The answers to these and some other questions are discussed in detail in this article.

What is it?

What is septoplasty of the nasal septum? Comments and specialists define the procedure as a kind of surgical intervention with the purpose of individual correction of the nasal septum (namely its shape). After carrying out such an operation, the patient no longer experiences difficulties with nasal breathing. Among other things, he is no longer bothered by ENT diseases caused by a deformed septum of the nose. Important! Do not confuse septoplasty with rhinoplasty. The shape of the nose does not change with the type of operation under consideration. The purpose of the procedure is exclusively correction of the septum. However, these types of surgical intervention can be combined if there is appropriate evidence for this.

Reviews after septoplasty

Obviously, it would be unreasonable to agree to any kind of treatment before finding out all the available information on this matter. It is important to find out exactly what you will have to face, how much money to plan, what alternatives exist, and whether there can be additional difficulties. Typically, this type of information can be learned only from those who have already been treated by the method you have chosen. Only this opinion can be considered reliable, because not all specialists warn of the dangers of intervention (although they must) and paint in all colors the unsightly sides of such procedure as septoplasty of the nose. The patient's feedback in this case will help much more.

So, what do patients say about the operation under consideration? For most of them, this procedure was the only way to correct that physical defect, which so interfered with the normal course of their lives. As a rule, significant improvements become especially noticeable already in the postoperative period, immediately after rehabilitation ends. Breathing through the nose no longer causes any difficulties, snoring disappears forever, a number of chronic diseases, caused by deformation of the nasal septum (for example, sinusitis), disappear. According to the patients, they did not experience any painful sensations during the surgical intervention. However, if local anesthesia is used, you should be prepared for a crunch in the nose, the need to spend some time without movement and some other inconveniences.

Types of septoplasty

The operation under consideration can be carried out in two alternative ways. This is an endoscopic method, as well as a method involving the use of laser technology. It would be reasonable to consider each of them in more detail.

1. Endoscopic septoplasty of the nasal septum

Reviews say that this method is the most popular among patients. The operation under consideration leaves no visible traces of surgical intervention, since all incisions are made exclusively on the mucous membrane of the nose. As a rule, the integrity of the septum is preserved in full, except for cases when the cause of curvature was physical injury (in such situations, some fragments of tissue have to be removed). Directly the operation takes from thirty to forty minutes. The whole complex of measures, together with the preparation of the patient and the introduction of anesthesia, lasts no more than one hour. Anesthesia that is used during surgery can be general, local or combined. Regardless of the choice, no pain will be felt, judging by how endoscopic septoplasty is characterized by patients. The patient's feedback allows us to conclude that there is no need to be afraid of pain. After the procedure, a short rehabilitation period should necessarily follow.

2. Laser septoplasty of the nasal septum

Reviews often recommend this type of intervention as the least stressful for the patient. Obviously, in this case, a laser beam is used during the operation. During surgery, only local anesthesia is used. The whole procedure takes no more than half an hour. Its undeniable advantages over the previous type of treatment are absolute non-traumatism and bloodlessness. Therefore, many people like laser septoplasty. The postoperative period (reviews make a special emphasis on this) is faster than usual and, what is extremely important, absolutely painless. During rehabilitation, you do not have to lie in the hospital, and also use turuns (tight tampons that are inserted into the nasal passages). Nevertheless, not everyone can choose the method in question. This is due to the fact that the procedure has a number of contraindications. Also the method is ineffective in those situations where the curvature affected not only cartilaginous, but also other tissues.

Indications

There are a number of reasons why experts recommend that their patients decide on such an operation as septoplasty of the nasal septum. Reviews of doctors - just a storehouse of useful information. There is information about them in this regard as well.

The main indication of the physician is the difficulty of breathing caused by deformation of the nasal septum.

In addition, this pathology can cause many other unpleasant phenomena and diseases. Among them are:

• Sinusitis (inflammation of the nasal sinuses both in the frontal part and in the maxillary sinuses);
• Frequent severe pain in the head (although the curvature of the nasal septum can be only one of many causes that provoked such a condition);
• Unpleasant noise that occurs during the breathing process;
• Persistent bleeding from the nose, arising for no apparent reason;
• Strong snoring;
• Swelling of the mucosa, which sometimes becomes the cause of allergic rhinitis;
• Constant exposure to a variety of colds.

Sometimes it is because of the wrong shape of the nasal septum that the nose itself deforms, and also the hump are formed on it. The only solution to the problem in this case may be septoplasty. Reviews (after the operation many patients share their impressions in social networks and on thematic forums) contain information that the results of the procedure are simply excellent.

An important point is the fact that the cartilaginous tissue continues to grow and change its shape up to twenty-one years. Therefore, it is forbidden to conduct the operation under consideration for patients who have not yet reached this age. Otherwise, perhaps in the future such surgical interventions will have to be repeated. On the other contraindications read below.

Contraindications

Not everyone is available septoplasty nasal septum. The reviews are strongly recommended to check in advance the existing contraindications to this procedure. This will help in the future to avoid all sorts of unpleasant consequences. So, who is opposed to septoplasty? The responses of experts allow us to fully answer this question. Surgical intervention is not performed in the following cases:

• In the presence of any infectious diseases (especially relevant in case of their exacerbation);
• If the patient's age is less than twenty-one years;
• In the presence of diabetes or some other disease that provokes a violation of blood clotting;
• In the presence of cancer.

Cost

How much can septoplasty cost? Reviews called different numbers. Obviously, the cost of the procedure depends to a large extent on how difficult the operation is, how badly the nasal septum is deformed, what type of anesthesia will be used, how much time the patient will need to spend in the inpatient department of the medical institution. Also, a significant role is played by the region in which septoplasty will be performed. Moscow (reviews confirm this), for example, is a region where even a simple operation will cost an order of magnitude more expensive.

In general, if the curvature of the nasal septum is not serious and innate, the procedure will cost the patient about fifty thousand rubles. If the pathology was acquired during life as a result of injuries, serious fractures, the cost may vary, and only in the larger direction, and even reach up to one hundred and fifty thousand rubles. That is why it is important to get all the necessary information in advance by consulting with a competent surgeon.

The price, which he will call you, usually already includes the following items:

• Anesthesia, which will be used during the operation;
• The whole complex of preparatory surveys, which includes consultations of competent specialists, necessary analyzes and so on;
• Directly septoplasty (the cost of the operation itself);
• Postoperative care of the patient (bandaging, treatment of healing wounds);
• The period of stay of the patient in a medical institution (in a hospital during rehabilitation).

Operation

Before proceeding directly to the operation, the patient must be prepared. For the beginning the doctor will appoint or nominate analyzes and some inspections. As a rule, this list is limited to the analysis for blood coagulability, fluorography, blood test for diseases such as HIV, hepatitis and syphilis, an electrocardiogram, general blood and urine tests, a biochemical blood test, and a consultation with an otolaryngologist.

How many stages does septoplasty consist of? Reviews recommend that you familiarize yourself with the progress of the operation in advance.

The first stage is comprehensive preparation of the patient. It is at this stage that anesthesia is administered. As a rule, septoplasty is performed under local anesthesia. The reviews say that some discomfort is still present, since it is impossible to abstract from what is happening.

The second stage is this directly surgical intervention. The operation begins with the fact that the doctor makes small incisions in the nose (namely on the mucous membrane). After that, the surgeon is engaged in exfoliation of soft tissues, removes deformed parts of the cartilaginous tissue (septum). Then the doctor straightens it, moving the bone (or cartilaginous) fragments.

The third stage is the final stage. All incisions are covered with special seams (they do not need to be removed, they will dissolve independently). On the nose impose a plaster or a bandage intended for it. Further in the nasal passages insert turundas (in case of endoscopic septoplasty). The reviews say that they usually have to wear at least twenty-four hours after the operation. Sometimes doctors recommend not to remove tampons at least seventy-two hours.

What is the difference between laser septoplasty? Reviews tell us about its benefits: outpatient holding, no need to apply seams and use tampons for the nose. Also, you do not have to spend the rehabilitation period in the hospital.

Rehabilitation

So, suppose you have read all available information about this procedure, including what is being said about the operation called "septoplasty" reviews. After surgery, can there be new, unforeseen difficulties?

It is important to remember that the patient, no doubt, will need a rehabilitation period. Its duration will depend directly on the condition of the particular operated. But, as a rule, the rehabilitation period does not last long. Anyway, so they report a procedure called "septoplasty" reviews.

After the operation (within two to three days), the patient will have to use special fixing tampons for the nose. They are not very comfortable. In addition, all this time you will have to breathe with your mouth. Because of the stress, the body can respond with fever, severe headaches, and unusual dry mouth. Discomfort will take place soon after the patient gets rid of tampons.

Another nasty consequence of the intervention called septoplasty reviews is called swelling of the nose. It also causes a known discomfort, because it prevents breathing freely. All inconveniences, as a rule, disappear after seven to ten days after the operation. Completely the patient is restored and can return to normal life after two weeks. Nevertheless, certain restrictions still remain. So, from intensive physical exertion will have to refrain for at least one more month.

Complications

Septoplasty is a very simple operation, therefore the probability of occurrence of complications after its carrying out is minimal. Usually patients talk about bleeding and infectious diseases that develop against their background. To avoid this, one should not forget that some drugs may increase the risk of bleeding. Therefore, before septoplasty it is necessary to consult a doctor and inform him about what medications you are taking now or taken shortly before contacting the clinic. Very rarely there are cases of changes in the external shape of the nose or damage to nerve endings after septoplasty. In order to protect yourself from this, it is important to apply only to proven, highly qualified doctors who will not allow such gross errors.

Conclusion

Septoplasty is an operation that has helped many times and for all to get rid of the onerous symptoms of diseases that cause curvature of the nasal septum. Despite the fact that the procedure in question has enough evidence to be assigned to thousands of people, it has a number of serious contraindications that can not be ignored in order not to cause even greater harm to one's health. Sometimes the consequences of an operation performed in the presence of contraindications can seriously aggravate the patient's pre-operative condition.

In the pursuit of good health, try to keep your balance. This is not enough for many people today, because of what they make mistakes that harm their physical and emotional state. Do not fall into their number. Be always healthy!