I never said I doubt that Manuka helps.
I don't know if it helps or not.
My only warning about Manuka was that it has to be properly diluted in saline and never applied as is to the inner nose, as it might cause a burn. Very simple.
I also recommended that the UMF not be above 15.
These were things that someone here didn't think it was worth mentioning and warning about, which resulted in me being severely burnt (which, weeks later, has not yet fully healed). I shared my experience with the forum in the hope that it helps prevent this from happening to others.

I said then (everyone can check my posts on that) and I say to kris again:
If you feel it helps you use it, in the diluted form of course, as she does.
But at the same time I recommended here some more things she has not tried which are worth trying, and also I must remind her and she said so her self, that at the time she got rid of the infection she was also using antibiotics, not just the honey alone, so she can't really know what did the trick.
She feels it moisturises her, good. Great. Lovely. Hurray. But, my warning remain - if you take an over 15 UMF manuka honey and apply it undiluted into the inner nose you will get burnt.
Infact, bigpapa, as you are so personal, rude and vulgar all the time - I'll be very happy if you tried to do so just to prove me wrong. Go ahead, lets see how you feel...

Kris,
The Wikipedia description of Atrophic Rhinitis is partly wrong. They made a common mistake and mixed AR with Ozena.
Ozena often sets in after AR does, but if you had it you would have such a stench from your nose that no one could come into the same room with you. There is know way you wouldn't know about that.
Ozena is a progressive degeneration of the bony sturctures of the nose. AR is just metaplasia (flattening, becomes like regular skin) of the the nasal mucosa. It alone will not cause saddle nose deformity, which even when caused in Ozena is the end result of prolonged Ozena (years). Your saddle nose, if it is indeed that, is a direct result of cutting to much bone or cartilage. Nothing to do with your post op infection.
You clearly have some symptoms of ENS that are amplified by your post infection dryness.
An infection like yours always results in short term damage to the mucosa. If recuperated in time it usually reverses itself, and then you will be left with the actual ENS symptoms of the surgery and only then you'll be able to really gauge how severe they are.
Of course the unwanted alteration in the shape of your nose will also continue to distress you emotionally, but that has nothing to do with ENS. It's a problem in it's own right.
Regarding the actual ENS you might have, I think that providing you get over the additional damage caused by the infection your symptoms will considerably improve and perhaps be negligible in the long run, as your turbinates were only mildly reduced (far less than 30% in my opinion. Perhaps 5% of each IT, but they were outfractured, this is why your airway appears larger, and your MT were a little more resected, but there you also had an anterior ethmoidectomy which also helped over enlarge the area of the MT, so I'd say that you for sure have ENS-type, and possibly ENS-MT). I think that if your symptoms will not improve you will certainly benefit from some Alloderm augmentation to your septum, depending of course on your cotton test results. But I believe that if the other nasal problems improve, your ENS symptoms will heal in the next 5 years, and probably almost completely.
Your ITs that are basically intact, because the slight reduction if occurred at all was of a small portion of the mucosa, not the bone, have a tremendous potential to hypertrophy and grow into the over enlarged airway (now that they were outfractured), and I believe that there is no reason why they won't. This happens all the time in the nose. It's called - compensatory hypertrophy, which means actual growth of healthy and functional turbinate tissue, as opposed from ordinary hypertrophy that happens from allergies or decongestant in which the turbinates simply become edemic and non functional.
(Bear in mind that I'm saying this based on the CT slices you sent me, which are not complete and of very bad quality... but that's what those specific slices show)