Is septoplasty and turbinate reduction medically indicated for a patient with a history of nasal bone fracture, deviated septum, inflamed and erythematous sinonasal mucous, and hypertrophied and inflamed inferior turbinates, presenting with obstructed breathing, soreness, and a shifted nose, after a crash that also resulted in a wrist fracture?

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