If I had it to do all over again, and I was as smart as you about researching all possible outcomes, I would start off with nasal irrigation, allergy tests and medicines, and trying nasal steroid sprays. I still have to use all that stuff AFTER TWO SURGERIES AND two somnoplasties anyway. Do that first. If the deviation is worth correcting because it really narrows your breathing, I would demand that the doctors not to touch my turbinates. If yo go through all this and heal, and are using meds andirrigation twice a day, and still one of the turbinates is too hypertrophied and bothersome, as it usually is (the one on the opposite side of the deviation), then I would look into SAFE ways to deal with it with a very conservative doctor = one who does not pressure you to do surgery on the turbinates off the bat.

Get this: my insurance initially only approved my septoplasty and NOT my turbinate resection, but my doctor refused to even do my surgery without both together, and I let him fight my insurance for dual coverage. What an idiot I was. Here I am, five years later, still crying over the results.