How is rhinoplasty surgery different in men vs. women?

Techniqes used in rhinoplasty are not gender specific. However these  same surgical techniques are used to achieve very different results. The most important aesthetic goal is to make the nose  proportional to the other facial structures - obviously different in males and females.

There are several factors that are taken into consideration when rhinoplasty is done on a man.  Men have thicker skin at the tip of their nose; their cartilages are thicker and more resilient to change than in women.  Rhinoplasty results in men tend to be a stronger dorsal profile than that of women.

Rhinoplasty is different for men and women in almost every respect starting out with facial aesthetics. While there is a lot of individual variation, facial aesthetics differ substantially between the sexes. In general, compared to women, the following features are considered more masculinizing and, therefore,... more