The Effect of Subcutaneous Dexamethasone to Reduce Edema and Ecchymosis in Rhinoplasty Patients

Table 3

Frequency distribution of ecchymosis grade on days 1, 3, 7, and 14 after injection classified into those cases of the patients’ faces that received the injection and those cases of the patients’ faces that did not receive the injection.

Time after surgery, day	Grade	Number of cases with injection	Number of cases without injection
The first day	0	2	2	0.88
	1	14	12
	2	17	18
	3	5	7
	4	4	2
The third day	0	4	6	0.85
	1	11	11
	2	11	7
	3	10	10
	4	6	7
The seventh day	0	14	19	0.68
	1	14	9
	2	6	4
	3	7	8
	4	1	1
The fourteenth day	0	32	30	0.92
	1	8	9
	2	1	2
	3	1	1