Is it possible to re-sculpt nose to any shape?

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A: Computer Imaging Can Help Clarify Your Goals and Set Your Expectations

By C. Spencer Cochran, MD - Dallas Facial Plastic Surgeon

It is possible for correction of a bulbous tip to appear natural as long as the nose is proportional and in balance with the other facial features. Your prospective rhinoplasty surgeon should be able to show you before and after computer simulations. Many rhinoplasty surgeons use computer imaging, and recently... more

A: Each nose has it own unique limitations.

By William Portuese, MD - Seattle Facial Plastic Surgeon

The bulbous tip can be refined through our tip rhinoplasty technique but there are some limitations to the shape that can be achieved through surgery. Computer imaging would help in this area for communication purposes prior to undergoing a rhinoplasty surgery.

A: Not everything is possible

By David Shafer, MD - Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

There are definitely many changes that can be made to your nose. However, not everything is possible. You are limited by your anatomy. Also, we have to balance function and aesthetics. We could create you a very cute small nose, but then you would not be able to breathe. All of these factors go into... more

A: Several factors can affect perfect Rhinoplasty results

By Robert M. Freund, MD - New York City Plastic Surgeon

As a plastic surgeon who performs many secondary and revision rhinoplasties, I am often humbled by the difficulty in creating the perfect nose. Often, I feel as if the world is against me. Why? Because a small change in shape in the nose is quite obvious and disconcerting. Although, I may leave the OR with a... more

A: A nose is not made of clay

By Otto Joseph Placik, MD - Chicago Plastic Surgeon

I use to have a professor that would tell me, "If patients were made of clay, I could guarantee them a perfect result!". Unfortunately, noses are not made of clay. What makes it worse, is that even if you sculpt it perfectly at the end of the operation, noses "settle" and heal. This is... more

A: No, you cannot make any nose shape

By Toby G. Mayer, MD - Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon

I tell my patients who have an"ethnic nose" that we want to refine the nose - not make it into a caucasian nose. This usually means narrowing the base of the nostrils, narrowing the tip and the nasal bones. It may required the tip to be set forward. But the result no one wants is that... more

A: Ethnic Rhinoplasty

By Michael A. Persky, MD - Los Angeles Facial Plastic Surgeon

Hi Remme, No, plastic surgeons cannot sculpt a nose to any shape that is desired. Ethnic noses such as yours are most difficult to reshape, although there are techniques that allow the experienced ethnic rhinoplastic surgeon to make the nose appear smaller, less bulbous in the tip with more definition of the... more

A: You can have a more refined tip.

By George J. Beraka, MD - Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

Hi! We certainly cannot create any shape we want, but we have gotten quite good at sculpturing the tip with internal stitches and grafts. You do want a final nose that looks natural and that looks like it belongs to your face.

A: We wish we could but often cannot

By Richard P. Rand, MD - Seattle Plastic Surgeon

Each patient is like a unique canvas and each patient can only have certain degrees of change achieved. In other words, there is no way to be able to give a patient any result they want. The same is true in hairdressing and any other personal appearance enhancement. You have a difficult starting... more