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How Can I Make my Nose Look Taller? (photo)

My nose is quite wide and flat at the bottom. I mostly want to make my nose less wide. I hope to remove the tip or ball at the end of my nose. Would that help the sides stand taller and look less wide? What procedures would be best and if possible are there nonsurgical methods? Thanks

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Non-surgical rhinoplasty is great for adding height to the nasal bridge and definition to the tip

You are a great candidate for a non-surgical rhinoplasty! Fillers placed to the bridge will add height. The bridge will appear more narrow. The tip definition can be improved. Either Restylane or Radiesse are great fillers for non-surgical rhinoplasty. I am attaching a link of a patient of mine with a similar appearance, good luck! see video

Reducing Nasal Width and Making the Nose Look Taller

The apparent nasal width can be reduced as well as the width of the tip, and the dorsum can be augmented with a multitude of techniques and materials. Find the plastic surgeon with ELITE credentials who performs hundreds of rhinoplasties each year. Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA

How Can I Make my Nose Look Taller?

From a single photo limited to nose its hard to comment. More images and if possible full face can be more helpful for useful comments. To me your nose looks like from an Asian angle like Chinese or Philippines.If that is the case your nasal bridge needs elevation and your alar base needs narrowing. I normally prefer simpler methods like silicone nasal implants and internal alar trimming for narrowing the base of alae. One can use tissue from the body like bone, cartilage and fascia or your... more

Taller Nose

The base of your nose can be narrowed and your tip refined. More pictures, including the profile, would be helpful but it appears that you may benefit from augmenting your bridge with your own cartilage to achieve a more defined projected nose that you describe.

Richard W. Fleming, MD

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Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon

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Nasal prominence

If you want to make the dorsum stronger, then you will need a graft on the dorsum. Usually it is best to use a cartilage graft.

Steven Wallach, MD

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Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

Yes, there are many options

There are many options, including cartilage grafts, fascia-cartilage grafts, implants and injections. In general injections can be used to make the nose taller, but they are limited in their effect and the safest ones dissolve after 6 yo 9 months (Juvederm, Restylane.) Surgery works well and usually I prefer to build up the nose with natural tissue, usualy a cartilage-fascia graft. Best regards, Dr. Lane Smith

Flat nose augmentation rhinoplasty

A very flat nose such as this would require augmentation rhinoplasty with either the patient's own cartilage harvested from inside the nose, or a small Silastic implant placed directly over the bridge. This nose is too flat to place fillers in.

How Can I Make my Nose Look Taller?

To project your nasal tip you will need a cartilage graft. I would take an open approach and harvest septal cartilage to form a tip graft as well as some cephalic resection of the lower lateral cartilages. This augmentation of your tip will make your nose appear narrower.

Augmentation rhinoplasty

Based on your photos it appears that you have an underprojected (flat) bridge and will benefit from augmentation rhinoplasty - ideally with rib cartilage graft

Sam Naficy, MD

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Seattle Facial Plastic Surgeon

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Managing the wide nose, dorsal augmentation

Blair8 the best way to achieve refinement and narrowing of your nose is going to be with some form of augmentation to the nasal dorsum and narrowing of the nasal base. When the top of the nose is augmented because of the additional height the nose appears narrower. To refine the tip of the nose, shaping of the tip cartilages is performed and occasionally these cartilages are supplemented with cartilage grafts. The ideal source of cartilage grafts is the nasal septum,... more

It seems you need a graft of cartilage to the dorsum of you nose and may be a tip vectorplasty

With only one picture of your nose it is truly impossible to give you any complete recommendation for surgery on your nose. From this limited front view it appears that you have a low nasal dorsum. The best way to augment a low nasal dorum is to take cartilage from your septum and graft it on to the dorsum of your nose. There are synthetic implants that are designed for this but you will never be sure that they won't one day become exposed, infected and extrude.

A nose can look "short" from starting too low at the bride to a tip that is too high

Nasal length is from the top (radix) to the bottom (columella). A short nose that has too low a bridge, as is common in Asian rhinoplasty, can be made longer by adding a graft to raise the bridge. That will lengthen the nose by making it start higher. A short nose due to a high nasal tip or columella requires bringing down the tip of the nose, which requires grafts to the nasal tripod or two nasal tip walls and the portion between them (columella). I suggest you seek out a... more

Nasal Dorsum Augmentation for wide nose

Dear Blair You already answered your own question.. Good Job By adding some projection (make it taller) to your nose in a proportionate way, your nose will appear less wide. There are many ways to make your nose taller with your own cartilage or implants. the other features of your nose should be discussed in your consultations. Best Wishes

Best Options for Taller Nose

First and foremost, cosmetic appearance of the nose has to be evaluated in context of proportion to other facial structures such as the distance between the corners of the eyes and relative chin projection. A safe and simple option to augment the bridge of the nose for a taller and narrower appearance is a dorsal implant. This can be combined with an adjunctive procedure to narrow the base of the nose to bring in the flaring nostrils. If tip improvement is desired, this can... more

Dorsal Augmentation Rhinoplasty for Taller Less Wide Nose

When you refer to taller and less wide you mean dorsal or dorso-columellar augmentation. This means building up the bridge of the nose down to the tip and/or including the tip also. This can be done by either a cartilage rib graft or a synthetic implant. The rib graft is by far the better approach long-term but it requires more of commitment in terms of expense, recovery and a donor site scar.