its been almost 2 weeks since they took off my nose splint ( 3 weeks since the day i got a surgery). i feel like the tip of my nose is kinnda round, big and short. will it be kinda pointy and grow a lil longer as time goes by? p.s: they used my ear cartilage
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Answer: Expectations during recovery after Asian rhinoplasty
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Although you appear to have a hump, that is only a one part of the problem. Your nose, like most Asians, has a dip in the area between your eyes (radix) that needs to be augmented. In addition, your tip cartilages are soft so that it is slightly dipping downward. I suspect it plunges when you...