How to Tape a Nose after Rhinoplasty
This is just some brown paper tape and I will give you a plenty of supply of this, how ever, much you need and I just tear off a little bit out, you do not ask me how much. It does not really matter, maybe say three finger breaths something like that, you just tear it off like that and then the key with those is we are going to try to support the tip upwards so the first move is to tape the base of the nose across here, it does not really much matter if there is across incision or not, just the key is to get the bottom of the tape there.
So I grab here like this and just sort of bringing the tape up and what you are going to do is you are just going to see it is just as short as that and you take your fingernails and you really want to squeeze it down. So it just kisses the skin and as I stick this to this rubber tube as like a little bit of making it up on but you can see that it should suggest like that and it really tried, the next move is try to get the tip down. So we are going to do the same thing, we are going to tape some tape, just pull out three fingerbreadths or so, tear it off like that. Because you want to be neat, you can cut it and then I will just push it down a little bit. Be careful because it is still going to be rounds so they can really see that sort of loose and I will take my fingernails here to and just squeeze down until it kisses the skin.
Remember she is not tender because she does not have a rhinoplasty but someone that has had a rhinoplasty, you can believe it is tender and you just want to make sure that that is it, so I am really going to cover the tip and make sure like here, becasue you really want that tip sealed down and that it does not scar and just really comes down naturally and really cuts down the swelling much more easily. Then it depends, I may tell you that is all you need or I may tell you, “oh your bridge is pretty swollen, we got to take care of that too.” If that is the case, then go and just adhere another one.
Now this one is a little different, you are not actually going to do the pinching, you are just going to take it across the bridge and let it sit on there and just a little bit of pressure to seal it down and we are going to go, and just for the sake of completeness, go ahead and just do the taping all the way to the top of the bridge, so again tearing it off, three fingerbreadths or whatever you want and just gently push it down a little bit so that we can get everything covered. We can see that there is that pinching effect. All you got to do is sort of push down like that and that is how to tape a nose.
Now the way that, the time that you tape the nose is after taking the splint down, take everything off, I usually ask you to do this, sometimes a few days, sometimes a month, or two months, somewhere around that range and a few patients with really thick skin is I have seen them progress. It may be even up to three months. And for the first week after the splint comes off at your home, and it looks like a lot of swelling, you can even wear it during the day, but definitely at night. So what you do is, you say, “well, I can not walk around in town like this.” The answer is no, obviously. This is not really for a night time. So what you do is, you out this tape on just like I just have showed you and then when you wake up in the morning, you take a shower and because the tape is really not hell bound too well, it will basically come off very easily just with the shower and then you just do that every night for the first six weeks to two months, maybe even three months as I say depending on what I see with you and the other thing that is really important with this too is that when we are supine or lying flat there is more swelling that gets into your nose, so it really helps you especially before you go to work, there is not much swelling so if you tape it down when you are lying flat the swelling can get into the nose and therefore the nose does not get more swelling, there is an availability of swelling.
So hope that little short vide
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