Non-caucasian rhinoplasty surgery presents a special challenge to the surgeon. The goal is to achieve an optimal aesthetic result while retaining a natural appearance for the patient. While some patients (Caucasian and non-Caucasian) like to bring in photos of movie stars or other persons whose noses they admire, other patients simply want their nose straighter, more elegant, more refined and more in balance with their face. This can be achieved while maintaining one's overall ethnic characteristics and facial harmony.
Some common techniques employed in ethnic rhinoplasty include bridge augmentation and nasal base reduction. Bridge augmentation can be performed using one's own cartilage (nasal or ear cartilage) as well several well-tolerated implant materials. Nasal base reduction can reduce the size of the nostrils as well as narrowing the overall width of the base of nose.
The Surgery
In many cases the rhinoplasty can be performed with no external incisions. If the nose requires advanced tip sculpting, or reconstruction of the middle third of the nose, you may be a candidate for "Open Rhinoplasty." The open approach involves making a short incision along the bottom part of the nose which allows direct visualization of the nasal components. This open rhinoplasty incision generally heals with an imperceptible scar which is of no concern to the patient. Experienced rhinoplasty surgeons are equally comfortable with an "open" or "endonasal" approach, and will choose whichever approach best suits your nose.
The rhinoplasty procedure may take from one to three hours, and is usually performed on an outpatient basis in an outpatient surgicenter. Anesthesia for the surgery is usually a general anesthesia or IV sedation, depending on patient preference and length of the procedure.
Recovery
Upon awakening from surgery, your nose will be covered with a firm external splint, which functions to hold the nasal bones in place and to protect the nose. The splint will remain in place for one week. While pain is normally quite minimal, all patients receive pain medication, as well as a brief course of antibiotics and medication to reduce swelling. Breathing is generally stuffy the first week. On postoperative visits, the nose will be cleaned of mucus and debris. You should then be able to breathe comfortably.
Many patients are able to return to work or school after two to three days, however most prefer to take a week of vacation around the time of surgery. While you should expect some post-surgery swelling and occasional bruising after rhinoplasty, your nose will be very presentable at one week. Bruising can usually be covered with make-up at this time. Post-operative swelling or edema will largely resolve over the first month, however you may notice subtle changes for up to 3 months and occasionally up to one year after surgery.
30, 40, or 72 million -- depending on whom you believe -- is the number of Americans who have a sleep disorder. How do they gather these stats, and what precisely do they mean by “sleep disorder?" And who are “they," anyway?
None of that matters! If you nod off on the job, or your social life has become drudgery or nothing seems as much fun because you are constantly tired from lack of healthy sleep, the statistics don’t matter. You need sleep!
More and more you’ve got "the lights on nobody home" curse and your enjoyment of life begins slipping into a haze. Simple things like taking your health walk become too much trouble. Food discipline, which has never been easy -- forget about it! Life passes you by, one day after another, they all seem pretty much the same -- you are tired all the time. Insomnia has taken the joy out your of life.
What Are The Sleepless and Grouchy to Do?
So you take sleep drugs or sleep supplements and things do change.
You have the jitters, the fresh carton of Super Extra Rich Chocolate Mint Swirl was there last evening, but it’s missing in the morning, and no one else likes it. What happened to it? Your passably sunny disposition gets a little cloudier, you’re less alert, and you become even more overstressed causing dull work days, missed pleasures, and accidents. I could go on, and so could you…
Read the list of side effects for Lunesta, Rozarem, and Ambien, to name a few. Read the sleep blogs. It’s not a pretty picture
The sleep drugs were supposed to make things better, and in some cases they did -- at first, but it wasn’t long before things took a turn for the worse. But those of you who were desperate for anything that would stop the mind chatter, stop the nights of staring into the abyss, prevent the dreaded dawn -- you had to do something.
Users of Sleep Drugs Live Shorter Lives
So we ignored what the drug companies, (compelled by inadequate laws and a self confessed understaffed FDA) themselves, admitted were possible side effects of even the new class of sleep drugs, namely: all sleeping drugs have the risk of becoming habit forming, grogginess, mental impairment, difficulty in urinating, depression, malaise -- and the list goes on. What they often don't make clear is that these sleep drugs do not work long term, can have an effect on breathing, and that users of sleep drugs live shorter lives.
But what about the All Natural and Dietary Sleep Supplements & Herbs?
The use of all natural and dietary sleep supplements can put you at even greater risk for more serious, even fatal consequences. At least the pharmaceutical companies are required to get FDA approval, no matter that their system, by their own admission, is not up to the responsibility.
The "natural" and "dietary" designations for sleep imply that since it’s not man made or it’s a man made food, certainly it must be safe. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Take just one example of an "all natural" cure. "Popular comfrey tea contains alkaloids toxic to the liver, and animal studies suggest it is carcinogenic, " said Varro Tyler, an emeritus professor at Purdue University.
Comfrey is banned in Canada and severely restricted in Germany, but still sold in the USA with dangerously deceptive advertising.
And what about dietary supplements such as L-trytophan? L-trytophan is based on the naturally occurring amino acid found in turkey. It makes you sleepy after Thanksgiving dinner. It’s a food. What could be wrong with taking L-trytophan for insomnia? Plenty.
"In the summer and fall of 1989, an epidemic outbreak of eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome (EMS) occurred in the United States. This illness is associated with the use of dietary supplements containing L-tryptophan. In all, more than 1500 cases of EMS, including at least 37 deaths, have been reported to the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), although the true incidence of the disorder is thought to be much higher. Some individuals suffering from L-tryptophan-related EMS have recovered, while other individuals' illnesses have persisted or worsened over time."
This report was published by the FDA in 2001, after the 37 known deaths. With a number of highly questionable rationalizations and unlawful marketing, L-trytophan is still being sold as a sleep aid in 2007.
There are hundreds more examples of dangerous all natural and manufactured dietary supplements being sold to help you sleep.
The very serious problem in taking any natural or dietary supplements to help you sleep is that there’s no oversight, no collective information, and minimal disciplined study. And this can be fatal. Correction, this has been fatal.
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