treatment
Last reviewed 10/2023
No treatment is necessary if there are minimal clinical features and there is only a minor degree of deviation.
Treatment options include:
- submucosal resection
- septoplasty - the treatment of choice in children, or when combined with rhinoplasty, or when there is dislocation of the caudal end of the septal cartilage
Septal surgery may be complicated by:
- post-operative haemorrhage
- septal haematoma
- septal perforation
- external deformity - due to the excessive removal of septal cartilage
- anosmia - rarely