One cup of raw, sliced yellow squash contains 18 calories. This low-calorie vegetable is an ideal side dish if you wish to lose weight. Yellow squash essentially has no fat -- a 1-cup portion provides only 0.2 g. Keeping your calories low but building a balanced meal does not have to be mutually exclusive.
Pros and cons: Nuss vs Ravitch. Whereas the Ravitch Procedure offers less pain after the procedure, the Nuss procedure gives a better cosmetic result. Dr. Hans Pilegaard primarily uses the Nuss procedure as it is the best option for most patients with pectus excavatum â even for patients older than 30 years.
You may have also decided to combine the surgery with a ânose jobâ (rhinoplasty) to improve the appearance of your nose. The combined surgery is called âseptorhinoplastyâ. You may also need sinus surgery. It is quite common for deviated septum surgery to be combined with other procedures. The surgery to repair the deviated septum may be covered but cosmetic procedures, such as rhinoplasty, will not. 2  Ask them to give you a âpre-determinationâ or âpre-certificationâ It is better to have this debate with them before you have surgery.