Can rasping be done on the nasal tip to smooth the supratip?

The lower 2/3 of your nose is all cartilage, so lowering your supratip area may be done with a scissor or blade, but not a rasp. Thanks! Dr Joseph

The supratip is cartilage so usually direct excision of this is done to reduce fullness. Rasping may be too traumatic for this fragile cartilaginous framework.

As you noted, rasping can be performed on the nasal bridge to decrease the height of the bone. The tip and supratip regions are all cartilage and cannot reduced with rasping. The cartilage may have to be removed or augmented and then sutured to reshape the tip and supratip.