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Is Non-surgical Nose Job Right for Me?
I have a bulbous tip that is pinched, and my nose is downturned when smiling and not smiling. Do I have any options to utilize fillers or Botox? I don't mind the size; I just want some graceful structure, and a neater upturned profile.
Asked 30 months ago by
arc1982c in Indianapolis
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Fillers and/or Botox cannot do the job. You need delicate surgery.
You need surgery. Filler's "add" and you need to reduce, to refine, to thin the nose.
You appear to be a good candidate. For you, refining the tip, raising it just a bit and narrowing the bridge a tad should do the job.
If your nose droops with smiling, that can be managed as the nose is slightly lifted.
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Non-surgical nose job is not the right treatment
Sorry Arc1982c. The only way of reliably narrowing a bulbous nasal tip is to narrow the width of the lower lateral cartilages making up the tip and then bring them together with several sutures effectively narrowing their arches. The tip would then have to be raised higher either by placing a lifting suture on the septum behind or with a cartilage graft seated on the anterior nasal spine making it the most anterior part of the bone at the base of the nasal opening. The pulling down of the...
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