People may think rhinoplasty is a clean surgery like heart surgery. But actually it is not. Rhinoplasty is a clean contaminated surgery. This means there are bacteria found in the surgicla field. It also means there is a chance of surgical field infection. In many cases, rhinoplasty is combined with septoplasty. Sepum is centered in the nasal cavity, where many normal bacterial flora exist. Thus, rhionplasty filed is always exposed to danger of bacterial infection from the nasal cavity. Even in surgeries without touching the septum, chance of infection from the nasal cavity and surrounding facial skin is high. I did a prospective study about the effect of chlorhexidine pretreatment on the rhinoplasty surgical filed contamination. What I found is rhinoplasty filed is not sterile (even with strict aseptic technique), is continuosly exposed to contamination from the skin flora, and chance of infection has a tendency to decrease with chlorhexidine pretreatment. This study results i...
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