I have a very prominent dorsal hump on my nose, yet neither of my parents do and none of my grandparents did either. I got hit in the nose quite often from around 5th grade to 8th grade (sports). It bled twice, once in 5th and once in 6th, not a lot though. The hump also started to grow during the same time, but I'm not sure if this was because of puberty or the frequent hits to the nose. Is it possible to have a dorsal hump if none of my relatives do? Or is this from repeated trauma?
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The bump created from trauma across the nasal bridge is in direct response to the traumatic injury usually at the bony-cartilaginous junction. This can be simply filed down in a couple months if it's still present after the injury. A large bump will require osteotomies and a...
In order for you to have opinions you really should post pictures. I can not comment beyond the fact that when you have Rhinoplasty surgery the different shades one will see in photos change. We actually want that. We are trying to create the correct structure that will reflect what we see as...
In general, your nose has less natural protection from the sun right after rhinoplasty. All the tissue was just elevated off of the internal structure of the nose, including the bone and cartilage, and blood vessels were coagulated in order to do this. There fore we weakened the nose's natural...
