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Unfortunately your best option is a rhinoplasty and it being a cosmetic procedure, insurance will not cover the cost. Discuss this with our parents and maybe visit a local board certified plastic surgeon with your parents to see if there are any financing options. Best wishes, and finally, do not let bullies get you down. You are beautiful on the inside and that is all that matters.
Girls should wait until at least 16 for nasal surgery if possible and boys to at least 18. Insurance will only help pay for breathing issues. Your parents will need to sign-off on any procedure until you are 18. The only way to make your nose smaller would be for you to grow more or to surgically reduce the size of the nose. Sometimes surgical training programs will perform rhinoplasty at a considerable discount. The residents or fellows are supervised by board certified attendings. For a purely cosmetic nose you could see a general plastic surgeon or a facial plastic surgeon. If you have breathing concerns you would want to see someone also board certified in otolaryngology. Be careful not to make your nose too small so it doesn't fit your face or breathe correctly.
If asked, what feature would you most like to change the answer is overwhelmingly a rhinoplasty. At 15 you may be a little young to consider surgery but if you have the backing of your parents it is not unreasonable.
Rhinoplasty in young patinets is a very important and frequently debated issue. Most experts agree that one should wait before proceeding with rhinoplasty until 17 or 18 years of age. Otherwise the risk of growth disturbances outweigh the benefits of cosmetic improvement. Exceptions may include noses that cause important breathing problems when the surgical procedure does not interfere significantly with important growth centers. So the good news is that there is a procedure available to reduce the size of your nose and to improve its shape, but you should be patient and wait until at least your 17th birthday.
The nose can look better taped in the early post-operative period because there is a bit of compression on the skin sleeve. With time, the skin should relax and become less swollen giving you a more defined nose. However, scarring is unpredictable so we never really can tell for sure...
Based on your photo, it looks as though there may have been a very slight separation in your incision line which resulted in the bleeding, but it should heal fine with appropriate care. Cleaning the incision line gently with peroxide diluted in distilled water (1:1) and keeping the...
This is a rather peculiar question. Having an orgasm would have no effect on a rhinoplasty but the path taken to achieve it might.
In general, resection of the depressor septi muscle will not affect your smile the much. However, if you had augmentation rhinoplasty using L-Shape silicone implant, particularly with the large pre-maxillar part design, or pre-maxillar augmentation had been done, it may alter your smile...
Since cocaine is a vasoconstrictor it can severely damage your nose, especially after rhinoplasty. The lining of the nose is quite fragile and inhaled substances such as cocaine can permanently damage the nose including creating a septal perforation and collapse your nose. In my practice, we r...
If the septum is deviated, or the nasal valves are collapsed, or the bones impede the airway then insurance will generally help with the repair costs. Valve repair and repairing a septonasal fracture will change the shape of the nose and can sometimes do the same thing as a rhinoplasty. If the...
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