What is the difference in healing time between an open and closed rhinoplasty?

The tip will swell with both approaches if the tip is manipulated with a closed approach. Meaning that if you do a closed approach and do not address the tip it will not swell, but if you do any tip work it will swell. With an open approach tip swelling is essentially guaranteed. Once the tip swells it will take weeks to months for it to completely return to baseline. And yes, the tip may drop with time with both approaches. Keep in mind that for involved tip manipulation most rhinoplasty surgeons prefer an open approach for access and control of the final outcome. Hope this helps!  

This is a great question and unfortunately, I would say it depends. Some surgeons perform all rhinoplasty through the closed approach. Others use the open approach almost all of the time except for their own revisions. In general, closed rhinoplasties have less work done overall, while open rhinoplasties, since subtle asymmetries can become very obvious, have more work done overall. Usually, the recovery is based on the amount of work that was done.  The scar for the open approach is usually near invisible within a few weeks and only visible from directly below you (your dog's view). Because of this, I always recommend that you find a surgeon that you feel comfortable with, that you have a discussion on the parts of your nose which you would like to improve and that the surgeon utilize the approach they need to get those results with highest probability of success.Good luck!