No Longer Will You Need to Tape Eyeglasses to the Forehead of Your Patients After Nasal-Surgery.

To help your healing nose maintain its shape, you won't be able to wear eyeglasses, reading glasses, sunglasses, or other optical wear that rests on the bridge of your nose for approximately four-to-six weeks.

If you must wear eyeglasses:

• Secure a strip of tape around the center bridge of your eyeglasses and secure the other end of the tape to your forehead.
• Another method would be to tape the bows of your eyeglasses to your temples. The tape is not as noticeable using this method.

How many of your patients have complained the tape will not adhere to their oily skin and how many have told you the tape has irritated their skin?

How many of your patients have not followed your instructions and have allowed their eyeglasses to rest on their unprotected nasal bone, resulting in a revision rhinoplasty?

There are nearly 70,000 web pages of instructions on Google, where patients can learn "how to tape glasses after rhinoplasty". On the internet, patients will find a variety of solutions such as making cheek-pads from makeup sponges, or using hairclips to position and fix the eyeglasses so they do not touch the bridge of the nose. This is just two of many of solutions mentioned on the Internet for keeping glasses from touching the nose after rhinoplasty surgery.