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What Are the Benefits of Tip Rhinoplasty?

asked 2 years ago by logic in California
Latest answer by Kris M. Reddy, MD, FACS
Question viewed 1,263 times
Tags: nose, costs, healing, self-esteem, tip

Hi. I have always been extremely self-conscious about my nose. I have an extremely low self-esteem and I feel like if I don't do something about it I will feel this way the rest of my life.

Do you think I would benefit from tip Rhinoplasty? Cost and healing are significant with just doing the tip Rhinoplasty I believe?

I also just hope it could be done in a way that looks like it was my natural nose (born with it) and not entirely noticeable that I have had Rhinoplasty done. Could I benefit from it?

16 answers to What Are the Benefits of Tip Rhinoplasty?

Tip Rhinoplasty

It is reasonable to expect imrovement in your tip with a rhinoplasty. See an experienced surgeon to determine if the rest of your nose will be proportional after surgery if only the tip is changed. A good surgeon will question your motivation. Will tip surgery really improve your poor self esteem?

Richard W. Fleming, MD
Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon

www.bevhills.com

What are the benefits of tip Rhinoplasty?

Hi Logic, Just ask Rudolph about the benefits of tiplasty, granted his swelling and redness have persisted longer than normal. The benefits of tiplasty are a more defined, sculpted nasal tip, as well as an appropiate nasal-labial (lip) angle, and a tip that blends with the rest of the nose and face. If the appearance your nose has been bothering you for a long time and creating self-consciousness, and your tip is what concerns you, then rhinoplasty will help you. Rhinoplasty will not change... more

Michael A. Persky, MD
Los Angeles Facial Plastic Surgeon

Tipplasty

A tipplasty will create a more refined and defined tip that will make it more proportionate with the rest of the nose and face.

Kris M. Reddy, MD, FACS
West Palm Beach Plastic Surgeon

Tip Rhinoplasty for a Bifid Tip

Your nose tip can be immensely improved with a tip rhinoplasty. The reason for the bifid tip (some of my patients described it as a "butt nose") is a wider than normal separation between the paired lower lateral cartilages which make up the tip. In a tip rhinoplasty these two cartilages can be refined and placed together doing away with the cleft. That would give you a nice result. It is important though to ascertain the appearance of the rest of the nose the tip would be seated... more

Peter A. Aldea, MD
Memphis Plastic Surgeon

Benefits of tip rhinoplasty

A tip rhinoplasty can certainly make the nose more symmetrical and remove any cleft between the domes of the nasal tip. Occasionally, a tip plasty can be performed by itself, but it is important to make sure that the new tip then balances with the rest of the nose. The remainder of the nose has to be well-balanced with the face prior to only doing a tip plasty. The tip plasty itself costs about half as much as a full rhinoplasty.

William Portuese, MD
Seattle Facial Plastic Surgeon

www.seattlefacial.com

Tip rhinoplasty great way for improving the nose in the right patient

Tip rhinoplasty is a great way to improve the appearance of the nose but often times it is just as important to make the bridge or dorsum blend in harmony with the tip. Rhinoplasty can dramatically improve your self esteem if in fact your low self esteem is directly related to your appearance but that is a question that you should answer with your health provider.

Jason B. Diamond, MD
Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon

Tip rhinoplasty is not a solution to low self esteem.

Your tip can be done to make it less broad and more refined, but that is probably not going to give you a great improvement in self esteem. You might consider discussing this with a therapist and postponing surgery--surgeons can always operate at a later date.

Toby Mayer, MD
Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon

Tip rhinoplasty is not guaranteed to improve self-esteem

Hi, yes it appears as if you could undergo a tip rhinoplasty. However, it's not guaranteed to improve your self-esteem. You should frankly discuss this concern with your surgeon when you go in for a consult, as you wouldn't want to undergo surgery for a result that may not be achieved. Good luck, /nsn.

Nina S. Naidu, MD
New York Plastic Surgeon

Tip rhinoplasty could benefit you

I'm sorry to hear that you feel this way about yourself from the shape of your nose. Tip rhinoplasty would be able to "sharpen" your tip, decrease its broadness, and elevate its angle slightly. A tip only rhinoplasty can be performed under local anesthesia and may be more reasonable financially than you might think. Before you embark on this change, make sure your surgeon examines your breathing and other structural components of your nose. Remember, cosmetic surgery and... more

Charles K. Lee, MD
San Francisco Plastic Surgeon

Nose job (rhinoplasty) and self esteem

Thre is no way to know if you will be pleased. An unsightly nose tip should not be the cause of low self esteeem and therefore fixing it will not necessarily cause your self esteem to be restored. This is an issue you should explore in greater depth and not seek a "quick fix" though cosmetic surgery unless this is the problem that is solely responsible for your loss of dignity.

Otto Joseph Placik, MD
Chicago Plastic Surgeon

Physically, you're a good candidate for Rhinoplasty

Physically you're a good candidate. In experienced hands you will likely get the result you want. I'd rather focus on the psychological aspects you mention. You're honest in stating your goal is to increase your self esteem. Cosmetic surgery can do that. There is little doubt about it. There's always the old adage; Look your Best, Feel your Best. The psychological assessment of a potential surgical candidate requires sensitivity and experience on the part of the surgeon. It's more an art... more

Oakley Smith, MD
Toronto Facial Plastic Surgeon

www.droakleysmithrhinoplasty.com

Rhinoplasty and self image

Thank you for your photo. I would definitely tell you that your nose and more specifically your tip can be improved with rhinoplasty. You may need more than just the tip operated on for a successful rhinoplasty and this can only be determined after a thorough consultation. Having said all of that, although I feel that aesthetically speaking your nose can be improved with rhinoplasty, self image is a much more complex issue. The changes you seek to your nose may help improve how you feel... more

Philip S. Schoenfeld, MD
Chevy Chase Facial Plastic Surgeon

Benefits of tip Rhinoplasty

To answer your question in your case with the one photo view. I would recommend a tip rhinoplasty to slightly improve the nasal tips appearance. Regards and Happy New Year!

Darryl J. Blinski, MD
Miami Plastic Surgeon

Tip rhinoplasty

A tip rhinoplasty is performed to improve the tip shape. This is great for bulbous tips, wide tips, and poor projectin tips. I prefer to perform them open.

Steven Wallach, MD
Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

Tip rhinoplasty benefits

Tip rhinoplasty is performed for specific problems of the nasal tip without other problems such as a hump or wide nose. In your specific case, the photos reveal a widened bifid tip (two visible large cartilages) which give the impression of a "split" tip. These cartilages can be trimmed, and sutured together to refine the tip and produce a smaller, less bulky, and uniform tip. Costs vary depending on the region of the country. Your procedure could be performed under local... more

Ricardo Izquierdo, MD
Chicago Plastic Surgeon

www.FaceAndBodyChicago.com

Tip rhinoplasty

There really isn't a "significant healing" from a rhinoplasty. It is virtually painless and the recovery would qualify more as just a bother and some private time. While anatomically it looks like you could receive some benefit physically from a rhinoplasty, you bring up a point explaining why some rhinoplasty patients continue to seek secondary and further surgeries. That is the fact that you might be trying to repair your self-esteem and psychological view of your self by... more