Rhinoplasty recovery time

I am planning on having rhinoplasty within the next year or two, and hoping to get it during break after my next semester of college. I already called the plastic surgeon at the hospital I plan to go to in Morgantown, WV (I go to school at WVU so it works out pretty well) and they said that a regular full rhinoplasty would cost around $5600.

I have a "stereotypically" Jewish nose and I think I'm more than a good candidate for it. It unfortunately offsets my otherwise delicate facial features (big eyes, nice lips/cheekbones, small chin). I find the price of a nose job to be WELL worth what it will do to fix my appearance. I'll show a picture, if anyone's interested.

It's not just I would like to get it a week before the second semester starts- but is a week enough time to heal? I don't really care if I have some visible scars/bruising for a few weeks as I read will happen; I just want to know that I will physically be able to attend class and work at that time, though of course I wouldn't exercise or do anything very physically demanding for a while.

Thanks, and if any of you personally can relate your experiences as well, I'd be more than interested to learn about them!

I had my doen in college while on college winter break. Roghly had a month plus off. Had to wear the splint for a month I believe. So maybe splint time varies from pdoc to pdoc but other than that the sweelling and bruising was pretty much gone by 2 weeks. hope thi shelps.

I had mine done last year.  Nobody could tell really except they asked me if I had lost weight lol

There are so many options are available for the rhinoplasty.
some sites provides the best facilities for it also.



Edited by Karen Shelton - August 22 2011 at 3:40pm