How young is too young for rhinoplasty?

Because the chin and the nose are usually the last structures to reach adult size, you want her to wait until she has fully grown. This is usually between 15 ands 16 for girls and 17 and 18 for boys.

Rhinoplasty can be performed on age 16 for females and 18 for males.  The nasal bone growth plates have not finished growing until that point, thus cosmetic Rhinoplasty surgery should be withheld until the face is fully developed.

In general you would not want to perform a cosmetic rhinoplasty ("nose job") on someone whose face has not stopped growing. In general, most people finish growth in the midface where the nose sits around the age of 15. Surgery prior to this time period may negatively affect growth in other areas of... more

We are often asked to perform rhinoplasty in young adolescents. Nasal surgery on children has long been a focus of discussion in the medical literature. As experts in rhinoplasty and nasal surgery, at Profiles we believe that discussion regarding nasal surgery in children has to be divided between functional... more