People who have trouble breathing through the nose are heavily dependent on mouth breathing. In this case, it can cause serious health problems. In nasal obstruction operation, the air flow paths of the nose are corrected. A rhinoplasty procedure can be performed with or without septum (septoplasty or septorhinoplasty) surgery to relieve airflow problems.
It is possible to collect nasal breathing problems under three headings, Septum deviation, Concha hypertrophy, Nasal valve problems.
The treatment for a person with breathing problems due to a deviation of the septum is surgery. Since most people will have surgery for this reason, they also want to have aesthetic nose surgery at the same time. On average, half of the people who apply to us are individuals who want to have both their breathing and aesthetic problems corrected. It is treated by removing or correcting the curved part in the operation.
To briefly define turbinate hypertrophy; The curvature of the nose causes turbinate enlargement and because air passage is reduced in both nostrils, breathing problems arise. Concha hypertrophy, on the other hand, usually resolves spontaneously within 3-6 months, following the correction of the septum. Radio frequency is usually applied to speed up this process.
The third reason for nasal obstruction is the decrease in the angle of the septum to the upper outer cartilages on the nasal dorsum. This situation is called nasal valve problem. In the treatment of nasal valve problems, elongated cartilages can be placed on the upper outer edge of the septum, sometimes unilaterally and sometimes bilaterally, to expand this area.
The structure that divides the nose into two equal parts in the midline is called the septum. Structurally, it consists of cartilage and bone. Curvatures can occur in these structures depending on many factors. It most often occurs due to traumas in the growing age, and depending on these bends, it bends in a C or S shape and loses its straightness in the midline. This condition is called septum deviation.
Nose Curvature Breathing Problems Due to Septum Deviation
Although the problem of nasal deviation is in many individuals in the society, people are mostly unaware of this situation as the minimal curvature of the septum does not cause a problem in breathing. In addition to nasal obstruction caused by curvature due to trauma, deformity of the nose also occurs.
The curvature of the nose can also narrow or completely block the airway inside the nose. The nasal cavity on the side where the septum is curved narrows, while the nasal cavity on the other side expands. This situation disrupts the balance of the air flow passing through the nasal cavities. It causes more air to pass through the wide airway and less air to pass through the narrow airway. In order to restore the balance of the airflow in both nasal cavities, the turbinates on the wide side enlarge and this situation makes the wide nasal cavity smaller and tries to equalize it with the opposite nasal cavity. This condition is called turbinate hypertrophy, which is known as concha enlargement in the community.
