Female. 5’5. 142 lbs. 56 years old. Nostrils uneven one appears collapsed when I breathe in heavily. Nose appears to be crooked as I age. No trouble with breathing. How is this corrected?
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Based on your photos, you are a great candidate for rhinoplasty. Fillers to the nasal tip can be done (usually with minimal risk if the injector knows what he/she is doing), but the result will only be temporary. Rhinoplasty can give a permanent result while refining other parts of the nose at...
Hello and thank you for your question. Based on your photographs, you may benefit from a tip refining revision rhinoplasty. Your surgeon can accomplish this by trimming, suturing, and reshaping the cartilage in your lower nose. Fascial grafts may also be used to help improve tip refinement....
It is difficult to answer this question without knowing what was done surgically during your prior rhinoplasty. Often, cartilage grafts are used to help in tip positioning and shaping. these grafts could certainly be fractured in the course of an accident which may result in a change in the...
