Impact of medium thick skin on Rhinoplasty, how will this affect and overall results?

Hello and thank you for your question. It takes longer for thick skin to heal after the rhinoplasty surgery. However, it's still possible to achieve successful results with thick-skinned patients. The main difference will be that thinner and smaller noses will be easily achievable with thin-skinned patients versus thick-skinned ones. Thicker the skin is harder to achieve a very small and narrow nose. Best wishes.

The thickness of the skin can impact the ability to see the changes made to the cartilage and bone during rhinoplasty. The thicker the skin, the harder it is to see those details. Without seeing your photos and going over your specific goals, it is hard to give you a specific plan. I would recommend consultation with a board certified plastic surgeon with experience in rhinoplasty.

In people with thicker skin, you can still do a successful rhinoplasty but have to be more aggressive in shaping the cartilage/bone so the changes are visible.

Without pictures it’s hard to tell how thick your skin is or what changes would work for your nose. But even with thicker skin you can still get a nice result from rhinoplasty. The key is selecting the right surgeon

Thick skin and rhinoplasty: thick skin mainly effects the outcome of the tip after rhinoplasty. The impact is much less on other aspects of a large nose, such as a dorsal hump, excessively long nose, and over projecting nose, A wide bridge, etc. There is usually still an improvement in the tip area but the end result will not be as “pointy“ as in a person with thin skin. The result is softer with less angular features showing in the tip area. This is not necessarily a negative feature. People whose skin is too thin may have too much definition in the tip and it may be too “pointy“. The best tips come when there is an ideal balance between the thickness of the skin and the strength of the underlying cartilage.

A Rhinoplasty procedure involves sculpting both bone and cartilage. It's impossible to change the thickness of the skin envelope over the framework of the nose. Steroid shots are required to reduce the swelling in the skin for the first several months after the surgery when patients have thick skin present. The steroid shots are just as important as the surgery itself to make sure that the nose is completely balanced during the healing process

Hi and welcome to our forum!
The thickness of your skin will affect the rhinoplasty surgical result. If you compare the bony nasal structure to a simple pup-tent, it will be triangularly shaped at the ends. If the overlying canvas (the skin) is thin, it will assume its shape. If you place a thicker material like rubber (thick skin) over the structure, the result will be dampened. The dampening depends upon the degree of skin thickness.
Unfortunately there is no satisfactory way to lessen the thickness of the skin without disturbing its vascularity and risking external scarring.
However, significant improvement can still be obtained in thicker skinned individuals.
Visit a board certified plastic surgeon for evaluation and discussion.
Best wishes...