What Happens After Fat Removal from the Nose Tip?

Fat removal to thin or make a nose more streamline is sometimes needed during rhinoplasty surgery but should always be done with great caution for fear of devascularizing the skin and causing skin necrosis or an unwanted contour deformity. The fat that is removed is essentially permanent.  Weight gain should not have any significant affect on the results. 

The fat in the tip of the nose is not the same kind of fat you have in the love handles or under the skin below the belly button. After being removed it should not grow back after weight gain. The main problem though is removing fat in the tip so the cartilage shape is more visible after surgery frequently results in nasal tip indents that are impossible to fix.

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Hello, this type of surgery is fairly simple.  However, to answer your question properly it depends on your skin type and the amount of fat removed. 

Defatting the nasal skin is sometimes performed to further refine the tip in patients with thick tissues. However, this can cause irregularities and even skin necrosis if over done.  I am not a big fan of this technique and reserve it for the rare patient.

When the fat is removed from the skin at the tip of the nose, there should be no perceptible regrowth with weight gain. There are, however, many problems associated with imprudent fat removal from this location including devascularization (impairment of the blood supply) of the skin resulting in skin loss or undesirable thinning; scarring, deformity and skeletonization whereby the contours of the underlying cartilages can be seen in an abnormal way.