Is your Nasal Septum deviated?? Surgery required? When should you worry?
"YOUR NASAL SEPTUM IS DEVIATED. YOU MAY NEED A SURGERY TO FIX IT. " Has anyone of you faced such a comment from your Doctor? Or may be your relatives or friends? Let us discuss briefly about this condition. Nasal septum is the hard part of your nose which forms a central partition between the two nasal cavities. It is made up of both bony parts and cartilaginous parts. IT CAN BE PERFECTLY NORMAL TO HAVE A DEVIATED NASAL SEPTUM!!! Yes. You read it right! A deviation of nasal septum can be normal as well. Do not keep an impression in your mind that nasal septum should always be precisely in midline. It can be deviated to right or left sometimes without causing any symptoms or troubles. SO HOW MUCH DEVIATION IS SIGNIFICANT? To make it simple, I will say that any deviation of nasal septum causing any troublesome symptoms to a person is significant. WHAT SYMPTOMS? Nasal block Nasal bleeding (Usually if there is spur along with deviation. Spur is a finger like projection fr...