How Much Difference Will Reducing Bulbous Nose Tip Make?

Being concerned about the postoperative results and how different you look is a very common concern of rhinoplasty patients. What's more interesting, is that those patients who are very concerned that others will notice are indeed somewhat disappointed when no one actually notices!It is hard to predict what other people's reactions will be.  I am from the belief that Friends will only notice a rather drastic change and may not even notice a bump being removed or a crooked nose straightened.   My recommendation is to make the changes that you want and not worry about what others will think. Most people are engrossed within their own issues and don't have a very detailed recollection of your face. While it may be obvious with the before and after photographs sitting beside themselves, it is much less obvious without the before picture.

Hello and thank you for your question. Based on your photograph, you may benefit from a tip refining rhinoplasty. Your appearance can still be kept very natural looking. Your surgeon can accomplish this by trimming, suturing, and reshaping the cartilage in your lower nose. Cartilage grafts may also be used to help improve tip refinement. I recommend that you seek consultation with a qualified board-certified plastic surgeon who can evaluate you in person.

Best wishes and good luck.

Richard G. Reish, M.D.
Harvard-trained plastic surgeon

As I carefully study your image, it appears that you would benefit from refining the tip of your nose with rhinoplasty. The goal is always to make you look your best, but still like you – in other words, rhinoplasty could help you to have more harmonious features by debulking your tip. Your nose should not be the central focal point of your face, but a very natural and understated nose – a result achievable by utilizing a conservative surgical approach. For best results, please have an in-person consultation with a board certified plastic surgeon with decades of experience in rhinoplasty.  

Reducing a bulbous tip will change the shape of your nose but it should be subtle.  It should not change the look of your entire face.  A skilled surgeon should be able to decrease the size while contouring your nose to fit well with your other facial features.  The key is to have your procedure performed by a board certified plastic surgeon or facial plastic surgeon with experience and expertise is rhinoplasty.  Ask to see before and after photos of their own patients.

Great question!  My goal when it comes to rhinoplasty is to make you a better version of yourself by enhancing your natural beauty and features through conservative rhinoplasty.  If you take a look at my rhinoplasty photo galleries, you will notice that I don't create the "same nose" for every person, because the truth of the matter is that the same shaped nose is not going to look good on every single person.   Every surgery of mine is individually customized and tailored to that specific patient, keeping in mind their facial features, ethnicity, genetics, skin type and thickness (which is very important when addressing a bulbous tip), gender, and goals for their nose.  My patients still look like themselves post-surgery, just a newer and improved version.   Be sure to do your due diligence with research before undergoing your rhinoplasty, as you want to be sure to go to a board certified plastic surgeon who performs both structural AND functional rhinoplasty, and performs the procedure regularly and on a vast variety of patients (males, females, Caucasians, Hispanics, African Americans, Asians, first time rhinoplasty, revision rhinoplasty, etc).  Many surgeons perform what we call "reductive" rhinoplasty, which compromises the strength and integrity of the nose, which then leads to breathing problems and collapsing of the nose and nostrils after surgery due to the nose being weakened through this "reductive" surgical approach to rhinoplasty.  With my dual approach of "structural rhinoplasty" and "functional rhinoplasty", I am always making the nose stronger than it was to begin with, as well as improving your breathing, so that you are not only pleased with your results 1 year, 2 years after surgery, but also 10,15,20 years after surgery.  

The nasal tip can be reduced without changing the overall look of the nose and the face. In fact, a good result is when nobody notices a change in your face. RegardsDr. Janjua