After a week all the medical dressings will be removed from your nose including the split, stitches, and nasal packing. At this point your doctor will inspect your healing progress and give you more care instructions for the next several weeks of your recovery. Your doctor may limit your physical activity for the first two or three weeks after surgery so that heavy breathing won't damage your surgery results. However, you should be able to go back to work within a week of your surgery if you are healing well. At this consultation you will also schedule another appointment with your doctor for one month from your surgery date so that your doctor can examine your healing and identify any problems that may have developed. After the one-month mark you should be feeling as good as new, and your results from your surgery should be visible and your bruising and swelling should be invisible to onlookers. This will be the time to really evaluate the success of your surgery with your doctor and to show off your new nose with pride.