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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Accidents can happen in the least expected places. Perhaps no one knows better than one Chicago Blackhawks fan who was seated in the United Center last week waiting to see if her favorite team could score the tie-breaking goal in the first game of the Stanley Cup Finals when a player shot the puck in her direction.
She heard the slap of the stick. Then saw a “black thing” hit her face. She couldn’t react. Everything happened so fast. So did the bleeding. Security rushed to the woman’s aid, where they placed towels on her forehead to control the bleeding until they could take her to the hospital.
While in the emergency room, doctors checked for a broken nose, but instead found the puck had left a laceration about an inch-and-a-half long, from the bridge of her nose to above her right eyebrow. She is expected to regain complete vision, but doctors had to put more than a dozen stitches to repair external and internal tissue around her forehead.
Injuries Are No Game
Bumps and bruises, especially facial fractures like broken noses and jaws, are considered part of the game – perhaps for even the hardiest of fans. But, those same injuries can be potentially serious, or at the very least leave behind scars that were not expected and certainly not wanted.
Facial distortions can be no fault of your own even after birth. Maybe, you don’t watch hockey – although it’s hard these days not to if you live in Chicago – but were involved in an accident that left your nose out of joint.
The good news is that a surgical procedure – called rhinoplasty — can change the shape of the nose. Athletes undergo nose jobs all the time to have balance restored to their faces, unsightly bumps removed or nasal passages cleared to improve breathing.
Live with It
Maybe genetics has left you with a nose that you feel you can’t live with. Nose development is usually hereditary. It should be comforting to know that people can have rhinoplasty to change the shape or look of their nose.Reshaping of the nose has also been known to improve self-confidence and may correct impaired breathing caused by structural abnormalities in the nasal passages.
If you’ve been unfortunately slapped with a puck or a ball or simply genetics, you can take action of your own. For a pressure-free consultation about rhinoplasty or other procedures, contact renowned Chicago facial plastic surgeon Dr. George T. Moynihan of Gold Coast Plastic Surgery at (312) 988-9300.
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