Q. After implant removal surgery, there is a snapping sound from the septal cartilage.

Hello. I am Kim Hyung-taek, CEO and head surgeon of Kowon Plastic Surgery, who approaches rhinoplasty with sincerity.

This answer note is about someone who had cartilage repositioning after implant removal surgery,

but then started hearing a sound from the nose after that.

Q. After implant removal surgery, there is a snapping sound from the septal cartilage.

It has been about 3 years since I had cartilage repositioning after removing the tip cartilage (donor rib cartilage) and silicone.

Just in case, for about a year after the implant removal surgery, I was careful even when touching my nose.

Ah, the implant removal surgery was done at another clinic.

About 1 year after the surgery, a sound started coming from the septal cartilage.

Should I say that I hold the columella area and push the septum?

If I push it to the right like this, it makes a snapping sound..

But if I push it to the left, it doesn’t..

On top of that, the sensation when it makes the sound feels strange.

Should I say it feels like bone hitting bone..? It feels like something small is being touchedㅠ

After the snapping sound, it goes back right away.

After noticing this, I went to the hospital, and they said it could be because the support structure is weak, so they could not remove the areas with severe adhesion.

And they also said that this kind of sound can happen even in people who have not had nose surgery..

It also worries me when I laugh. You know how sometimes you laugh really hard? At those times, there are moments when I hear a snapping sound from my nose, so I have become reluctant to laugh loudly.

Also.. although it’s occasional, when I laugh, there is a dull aching pain near the nostril cartilage beside the columella, inside the nostril, and in those moments, if I gently push it to the right, it settles down..

I looked it up and saw that some people hear a sound when there is a septal problem or when the support structure is long, but is this a serious issue? Since all of the support structure has been removed, if anything remains, I think it would be very little—could this sound be a major problem?

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You are worried because of the sound from the septal cartilage.

It is a sound that occurs when you laugh loudly, when the muscles around the nose are pulled strongly, or when you move the columella by hand.

It is simply the sound made when the septal cartilage collides.

It is not a problem at all, so there is no need to worry too much.

Thank you.

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