ineedagooddoctor, stop panicking! It's nearly a year since my surgery, and I'm here to tell you that your nose will improve - it will refine and refine and refine again, all subtly and gradually, not something you suddenly see upon waking up one morning. At one month you are just SO early in the healing process and you are not yet seeing your final nose. Believe me.
When my cast came off I looked in the mirror and thought "weird", "fat" and that was it. Not like on the Makeover shows where people seem to be ecstatic. My nose then proceeded to swell so that it looked thick and basically shapeless from front view. Then the tip went blobby. I didn't say anything to anyone else, but I secretly worried because I had specifically told my PS that I didn't want a ski-jump nose, and there it was.... in profile I had a ski-jump. The tip curved out and up, and it looked blobby and sort of bulbous. Every time I looked in the mirror it threw me because it looked so odd. I now think it was my nostrils which helped caused the oddness - because my nose had a piggy tip so that my nostrils were much more obvious and I wasn't used to that. People on the message boards kept saying it took months to settle, give it time, etc, but secretly I thought I was the exception and my nose was now how it would be forever. I was wrong!
Finally I became fatalistic about it - decided that for now I couldn't change anything, and I would try to stop obsessing and give it time. I gradually stopped checking my nose in the mirror so often (took a few months to ease up on the obsessing, though). Then when I did check I could see my nose was refining... photos were the best way of becoming aware of the improvements. The refinement is gradual but it does happen. Even now I think it is still improving. Your nose just imperceptively loses its piggishness, fines down, takes on a shape instead of being a numb mass sitting there in the middle of your face.
I couldn't smile properly either, and I have seen other people write about the same problem. It's because of the swelling and trauma to your lip area. Your smile isn't gone forever, it will come back, and your teeth will show as before, and it doesn't take that long.
One thing that I learnt was that people don't notice us as much as we think they do. I found people didn't notice my nose (unless I'd told them about it, and even then they weren't sure what it was like before.... how had they never noticed?!!!
). And I had a lot more surgical procedures done than just my nose! Yet people tend to just think you look different, nice, healthy, whatever, or that you have a new hairstyle, or even in my case - new clothes!!! Don't worry about that cap to cover up with. Just get out there with your head held high and I bet no one notices a thing. Besides, a new job means the people didn't know you with your old nose, and I bet anything that not one person evaluates your nose and has any thought about it whatsoever!
Sorry to ramble on, I haven't been on the forum here for ages, but just had to reply to you because I've been there and I know it does get better. Best of luck.