Can Collagen Fillers Be Used Also for Nose Lifting? Are There Any Side Effects? Can Botox Be Used for Nose Lift?

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Ron Shelton, MD · Answer

You would need a consultation to determine what you need and what you mean by a nose lift. If the tip of the nose has drooped down, then sometimes fillers injected in the columella, or the strut of the nose that joins the upper lip, can help rebuild the support of the nose. The fillers are Restylane or Juvederm and even off-label Radiesse but rarely collagen any more. If you don't mean nose lift, but nose job, some people can have a lump of the bridge of the nose made to appear flatter if some filler is injected into the depression between the root of the nose between the eyebrows and the bump on the dorsum of the nose to make a straighter line on profile. If you have a condition in which when you smile the tip of the nose is pulled down, then botox can be injected into this depressor nasalis muscle but in general most people would need a surgical rhinoplasty by a plastic or ENT facial plastic surgeon to achieve a good result.

Kenneth D. Steinsapir, MD · Answer

It is just essential to understand the limits of these types of treatments. For small issues that to not warrant a rhinoplasty, HA fillers, which can be adjusted if needed after the fact, are an option. Ultimately fillers are not a substitute for actual rhinoplasty to structurally change the nose.

Misbah Khan MD, FAAD, FACMS · Answer

the filler of choice for nose lifts is Radiesse and HA based fillers like Restylene. I have never tried Sculptra for nose lift. Botox can be used to thin the base of the nose (in between the eyes)

Eric M. Joseph, MD · Answer

In general, only rhinoplasty surgery is helpful for achieving a "nose lift". Fillers may be helpful for nasal indentations or to camouflage a small dorsal hump.

	Dr. Joseph

Martin Jugenburg, MD · Answer

Fillers can be used to correct some nasal cosmetic problems. Fillers that contain collagen, or now Hyaluronic acid, can be used. Botox is a muscle relaxant and can be used for an overactive muscle that pulls down the tip when talking but otherwise it is not a good treatment choice for nasal alterations.

Leonard T. Yu, MD · Answer

I agree that collagen fillers have generally been replaced by hyaluronic acids. This especially true for filling minor nasal deformities. Radiesse can also be used and may last longer than the HA's. Sculptra is probably the least useful for noses.

Steven Wallach, MD · Answer

Most doctors have replaced collagen fillers with the hyaluronic acids fillers like restylane and perlane and juvederm.

Edward Szachowicz, MD, PhD · Answer

I have used Radiesse and hyaluronic gel fillers to augment the nose, but I have seen too many red blood vessel reactions (telangiectasia) of the skin over time which only gets worse with repeated treatments. I am now using Sculptra with good results. However, this use of Sculptra is not for novice injectors and must be done very slowly over a many treatment sessions to avoid nodules or a concentrated formation of new collagen.

Jacqueline Calkin, MD · Answer

All fillers can be used for reshaping the nose.  Botox can modestly lift the tip of the nose is some patients.

E. Anthony Musarra II, MD (in memoriam) · Answer

The thick fillers-Radiesse and Juvaderm ultra plus-can alter the shape of your nose is a positive way.

	The result can be very good but lasts 9 to 12 months.  They can't make your nose smaller, narrower

	thinner, larger, and they can't make the hump on the bridge of your nose go away.  There are no side effects.

	Botox will have no effect on the size or shape of your nose.

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