I am female and I have a very flat profile, my nose is straight, doesn't protrude much and I don't like how and where it joins my forehead. I want one of those sweeping / curved-inwards joins to my forehead, as though at the base of the forehead a concave semi-circle shape starts and then blends into the curve of the nose, like in the diagram. (I didn't use pictures for identity reasons, but the left image is a tracing of my own profile. What sort of procedure could fix this?
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May 13, 2019
Answer: Rhinoplasty to reduce the glabella and radix
Perfect is the enemy of good. I don't see a major issue with your ala, which doesn't mean that you don't see one. The trouble is that small things are difficult to correct and that in tryng to modify the ala you could convert something that only you see into something that everyone sees....
Without any pictures at impossible to give an opinion on what may or may not be required with the cartilaginous structure of your nose. Some patients have a depressor septi ligament, and when that is present, it pulls the tip of the nose downward with animation and smiling. Releasing of the...