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It is not possible to make a clinical recommendation based upon a single photo of the base of your nose. I can see that your nostrils appear to flare somewhat. To determine if alarplasty would be right for you, please consider meeting with several reputable rhinoplasty specialists. Thank you for your question! Sincerely, Dr Joseph
It would be helpful to have several photos of your nose and face together to make sure you're a candidate for the procedure. Based on this one very limited photograph, your nostrils do appear excessively wide. An Alarplasty. accomplishes narrowing the base of the nostrils by removing a wedge of skin, and this procedure can be performed under local anesthesia as an outpatient procedure which usually takes about 30 minutes.
The nose may widen when you smile because the tip doesn't have good support. This can be corrected along with the bulbosity in a tip plasty. The ala should be considered in relation to the tip at rest. If they are flared without smiling, then alarplasty can be done at the same time. Be sure to...
Alarplasty will help with narrowing the nostrils and reducing the size of the bottom of the nose. However, you need tip plasty to reduce the bulbous tip as well. As the tip drops down with age you need a cartilage graft to lift up the tip at the same time. Regards Dr. J
I believe you are! I’m sure your surgeon will agree. You look great and you will look even better with the alar base reduction. Just understand if he doesn’t want to be overly aggressive because sometimes reducing the alar base too much can produce unaesthetic results. Best of luck, Dr. Miguel Mota
