Nose Job (Rhinoplasty)

Remodeling the nose, or rhinoplasty surgery, can be used to resolve a variety of concerns. The procedure may focus on straightening the nose, reducing its size, removing a bump or building up the bridge line with a graft of bone or cartilage.

Frequently achieving the right nose shape requires a combination of these things. The need for nose reshaping may be the result of an accident.

However changes can also occur naturally during the adolescent growth spurt. Frequently, a bump develops on the nasal bridge. In other cases it is the nasal tip which may cause problems or concern, by being large and ill-defined. Often a genetic predisposition to an unattractive ‘family nose’ becomes the cause of self consciousness and embarrassment. All these conditions can be helped by what is commonly called a ‘nose job’.

Nose Job (Rhinoplasty) Overview

Rhinoplasty is generally done through incisions made inside the nostrils, which means there will be no visible external scars. There is also an ‘open tip’ technique in which a small stepped or w-shaped incisions is made across the central portion of the nose, called the columella. This allows easy access to the cartilage in the tip of the nose and leaves a small unnoticeable scar in the shadow under the tip of the nose.

The cartilage and bony framework of the nose are refined and repositioned between the skin and nasal lining and reductions can be made to take away as much bone and cartilage as required, or in some cases grafts can be used to augment the nose contour to improve its shape.

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