Q. I have poor eyesight, and I had eye and nose surgery at the same time. When can I start wearing contact lenses and glasses?

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When it comes to eye surgery, you need to be careful with wearing contact lenses.

This is because putting in contact lenses requires touching and pulling open the eyelids, which can interfere with wound healing.

All related precautions that may irritate the surgical area are generally based on about one month after surgery,

but if poor eyesight makes things uncomfortable, you should refrain from wearing them for at least 3 weeks.

When it comes to nose surgery, you need to be careful with wearing glasses.

This is because in nose surgery, an implant may extend up to the glabella area, and putting on and taking off glasses can move it.

The glasses themselves also have weight, so if they press on the nose, they may push the implant as well.

After about a month, the implant begins to adhere to the surrounding tissue, and movement becomes less likely, so you can wear glasses from that time.

To summarize,

the usual time when wounds heal safely and adhere to the surrounding tissues is about one month, and until then,

for eye surgery, wearing contact lenses should be avoided, while wearing glasses is possible,

and for nose surgery, wearing glasses should be avoided, while wearing contact lenses is possible.

The question here is about having both eye and nose surgery together, so it is a case where wearing both contact lenses and glasses is difficult.

If you cannot go about daily life at all with unaided vision, it would be better to adjust the timing of the two surgeries and have them separately.

If your eyesight is not good enough to see far but still allows you to manage daily life to some extent, we recommend using them starting about one month after surgery.