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Thick - Uneven Nostrils / Asymmetrical Tip - Can my Nose Be Fixed?

asked 1 year ago by Anna81
Latest answer by Richard W. Fleming, MD
Question viewed 469 times
Tags: nostrils, thicken, tip, uneven

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4 answers to Thick - Uneven Nostrils / Asymmetrical Tip - Can my Nose Be Fixed?

+1

Uneven Nostrils & Asymmetrical Tip

The thickness of your nasal skin and nostrils cannot be changed. The asymmetry of your tip on the frontal view can be improved.
Richard W. Fleming, MD

Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon

www.bevhills.com

+2

Surgery for thick, uneven nostrils and asymmetrical tip not recommended.

Anna, your pictures show a nose that has thick skin, and surgery on a nose such as this only adds swelling (which eventually settles after many months) and scar tissue (which softens and matures, but always adds some additional tissue), neither of which make the nose skin look thinner! Sure, the underlying framework of cartilage can be surgically manipulated, but thick skin, swelling, and scar tissue ALWAYS obscure fine detail to some degree, no matter who does it, and how skillfully done!... more
Richard H. Tholen, MD, FACS

Minneapolis Plastic Surgeon
+2

Thick and uneven nostrils.

Unless you have a breathing problem it would be better to leave them alone since there is so slight an asymmetry present.
Toby Mayer, MD

Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon
+2

Asymmetric tip and thick nostrils

Everyone's nose is a bit different and there is always asymmetry.  AS for the thcikness of the nostrils, it is very hard to alter that without sometimes causing worse problems.
Steven Wallach, MD

Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

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