Nose Surgery to Fix Thick and Round African American Nose?

asked 2 years ago by jb1 in huntsville, alabama
Latest answer by William Portuese, MD
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Tags: nose, African American, round, skin

I have a somewhat average nose for an African American. However, it is very round at the tip. I really don't like it cause makes my nose look huge!

The skin of my nose feels very thick, thicker than the average nose. I have been researching and was wondering what kind of procedure would be for taking the "extra thick roundness" out of my nose?

5 answers to Nose Surgery to Fix Thick and Round African American Nose?

African-American noses for rhinoplasty require special techniques.

Reducing the thickness in the nasal tip skin can be only one part of rhinoplasty to change the appearance of a bulbous tip in the African-American patient or any rhinoplasty patient with thick nasal tip skin. Thick nasal skin can be thinned in some instances to reveal underlying nasal tip cartilages that are beautifully shaped. This can be, but rarely IS, the only thing that must technically be done to refine a bulbous, thick-skinned nasal tip. Most often one must refine and strengthen... more

H. Steve Byrd, MD
Dallas Plastic Surgeon

Make sure you see a rhinoplasty expert.

You can have the skin thinned witch is the major problem in African-American noses. The tip will also need more definition from cartilage grafts to project the tip once the skin is thinned. See a rhinoplasty specialist who does a large number of natural looking African-American noses.

Toby Mayer, MD
Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon

Rhinoplasty techniques to decrease round African American nose

With regards to an African American ethnic nose, the tip cartilages tend to be very wide, thick, and protuberant. Removal and sculpting of the nasal tip cartilages is performed, along with suturing the domes of the lower lateral cartilages in the tip to create a more feminized and refined look, while still maintaining the ethnic nose. Suture techniques are used to narrow a broad, flat nose to bring it more into balance with the facial features. Further rhinoplasty technique such as... more

William Portuese, MD
Seattle Facial Plastic Surgeon

www.seattlefacial.com

African American Rhinoplasty and Ethnic Rhinoplasty: Choose the Right Surgeon

African American Rhinoplasty typically involves narrowing a wide nose. The nose can be wide across the tip, across, the bridge, and wide from nostril to nostril. For the nose to appear natural, usually the nose must be reduced proportionally. Narrowing a broad tip is an important part ot African American Rhinoplasty. The lower lateral cartilages (tip cartilages) can be trimmed and reshaped either with sutures or with grafts to relieve the excess curvature. Nostril reduction surgery... more

C. Spencer Cochran, MD
Dallas Facial Plastic Surgeon

www.rhinoplasty-usa.com

African American Noses have special features

All noses are different, this applies to many different African American noses as well. Generally, when patients have thick skin and thin weak cartilages (these usually go together), such as in a typical African Amercian Nose, we do the opposite of what is done on Caucasian noses. In patients with thin skin and strong cartilages, carving the tip cartilage and using sutures is usually enough to get a fine sculpted tip. In African American noses, we do the opposoite. Removing cartilage... more

Steven J. Pearlman, MD
New York Facial Plastic Surgeon

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