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Does Your Nose Keep Growing? Would This Affect Outcome of Rhinoplasty?

asked 1 year ago by MsFunnyFace in Ireland
Latest answer by Richard W. Fleming, MD
Question viewed 1,236 times
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Thank you for previous help/advice on previous question. Interestingly, I heard noses do not stop growing...is this true? Would this not affect future results of a rhinoplasty? ie, the new nose could slightly fall back into its original state pre-surgery? Thank you all.

8 answers to Does Your Nose Keep Growing? Would This Affect Outcome of Rhinoplasty?

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Do Noses Keep Growing

Noses do not keep growing after puberty. Like all parts of the body, they will change secondary to gravity and aging later in life.The nose will always look better after rhinoplasty and will never revert to it's pre-surgical appearance.
Richard W. Fleming, MD

Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon

www.bevhills.com

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Despite popular beliefs, the nose does not continue growing, it ages

Many patients and non-patients comment that the nose is one of the few areas of the body that continues growing. That is completely false. The nose does change however. Noses get longer with age from stretching of the ligaments holding the nasal tip cartilages up to the rest of the nose. Tip cartilages may get weaker. Also the skin stretches. These aging changes may make the nose look longer from a drooping tip. The hump may also look larger. In reality the bump stays the same... more
Steven J. Pearlman, MD

New York Facial Plastic Surgeon
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Noses don't keep growing: they fall with age.

Noses don't keep growing: they fall with age and therefore appear to be larger. It does not affect your rhinoplasty.
Toby Mayer, MD

Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon
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Does the nose continue to grow with time?

The nose doesn't continually grow with time. It can appear to do this as the tip to droops with aging. This can be due to a combination of decrease ligamentous support of the nasal cartilages and also from less boney support at the base of the nose. Also, one's nasal tip skin can become thicker as we get older. Regardless, these changes shouldn't affect one's rhinoplasty results appreciably. I typically augment the nasal support mechanisms during rhinoplasty to... more
Thomas A Lamperti, MD

Seattle Facial Plastic Surgeon
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Growth of the nose

Dear Ms Funny Face,   Noses are considered fully grown in most females by age 16-17, and by ages 17-18 in males.  The nose continues to change as we age but does not continue to grow, rather the ligaments holding the nasal cartialge weaken and the nasal tip tends to widen and droop with age.
Mark Ginsburg, DO

Media Facial Plastic Surgeon
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Nasal Changes with Age

The nose changes as we age and these changes depend on our genetics, environment and anatomy.  Starting with the skin - the skin gradually loses collagen, accumulates sun damage and thins out as we age.  The thin nasal fatty layer also thins with age.  The piriform aperture (the boney opening for the nose) gradually increases in size with age.  The fibrous connections between the upper lateral cartialge/caudal septum and the lower lateral cartilage/medial crura also... more
Daniel Reichner, MD

Newport Beach Plastic Surgeon
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Nasal growth

Most growth of the nose ends by about 17 to 18 in boys and a bit younger in women.  There can be small changes iin the cartilage with life, but nothing too significant.
Steven Wallach, MD

Manhattan Plastic Surgeon
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Unless You are made of Cherry Wood and your father's name is Geppetto your nose is UNLIKELY to constantly grow

Regarding: "Does Your Nose Keep Growing? Would This Affect Outcome of Rhinoplasty? Thank you for previous help/advice on previous question. Interestingly, I heard noses do not stop growing...is this true? Would this not affect future results of a rhinoplasty? ie, the new nose could slightly fall back into its original state pre-surgery? Thank you all." I have answered another of your questions today. Nasal growth after surgery is an urban myth. With age, there is tissue relaxa more
Peter A. Aldea, MD

Memphis Plastic Surgeon

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