How Do Rhinoplasty Surgeons Know What Will Fit?

 This is the reason you should see an experienced rhinoplasty specialist. This is an art and you have to make sure the surgeon has the same "taste" as you. The best way of doing this is to look at his actual work--Live post operative patients with a similar problem to yours.

Hi Mark,
Rhinoplasty is an art. One of the giants of rhinoplasty surgery, Eugene Tardy, MD, called rhinoplasty "the most difficult of all facial plastic surgeries".
What makes it a difficult surgery is blending the aesthetic sense of beauty and proportions skillfully to achieve what best "fits" the individual face after having made the proper diagnosis and creating a precise surgical plan. As with other facial cosmetic procedures, you want a physician with "the eye, the hand, and the heart" (see web reference below)
Leonardo da Vinci studied the human face and his mathematically ratios have withstood the test of time. Rhinoplasty surgeons have these proper proportions in mind when they operate on the nose.
Computer imaging pre-operatively helps give both the patient and the surgeon an idea of what "fits" for the patient, but ultimately it is the artistic ability of the surgeon to sculpt the nose on the operating table that achieves pleasing rhinoplasty results.
Good luck and be well.
Dr. P