Can I Benefit from Revision Rhinoplasty, What Are Your Recommendations?

Hello! There are several ways to address nostril flaring after rhinoplasty, which certainly can occur when a deprojection is performed. Either narrowing the nostrils with a Weir excision, or cutting a portion of the alae to minimize flaring, is effective but requires a scar in the alar crease....

Your question highlights exactly why pre-op computer morphing/imaging is so important with rhinoplasty--to assure that you and your surgeon are communicating the same ideas about what your nose should look like. It's also helpful to show patients the limitations on what can be done with...

It is best to wait a full year before doing a revision on a poly beak deformity which is due to swelling of the tip, or loss of tip projection, or inadequate septal cartilage resection.  Steroid injections can help a mild poly beak, but often revision is necessary, which would require re...

If only a small edge is visible, sometimes it can be softened by shaving it in the office with a needle under local anesthesia.  If it is a large visble area, then a small revision may be necessary to revise the graft either my softening its edges or camouflaging it with an additional graft...