Improved tip definition in an ethnic rhinoplasty

While it is more difficult to see immediate significant differences in tip definition after rhinoplasty on folks with thicker skin, it can be done, but the final result will take some time to see and may require a second, minor in-office procedure. The key is to be patient and work with your surgeon, but don't expect to see significant tip definition right away after surgery as we would expect in say a rhinoplasty on a Caucasian with very thin tip skin. It may take several months or longer to see the final result, and so the key here is good communication with your surgeon as to what to expect.

With ethnic rhinoplasty it is sometimes difficult to give a pointed nose due to excess thick, oily, sebaceous skin. Certainly, the ethnic tip can be refined. The rhinoplasty operation is a sculpting of both bone and cartilage for refinement purposes. It is not skin surgery. The skin itself cannot be thinned with a rhinoplasty or a tip plasty operation. Thick skin will always cover up and blunt the sculpting that is done on the tip.