I am a 28 year old female in pretty good health and with no prior h/o surgeries. My main concerns are a deviated nasal tip and/or septum (which displaces my nose toward the left) and asymmetrical thickness of my alar sidewalls, the right being much thicker/larger than the left. As I do have a slight dorsal hump, but with no desire to reduce it, can surgery address my concerns without affecting my dorsal hump? Also, is reducing alar sidewall thickness possible? Thanks in advance.
March 27, 2014
Answer: Septal issue? Dorsum I think that you need to be seen in person to be properly evaluated. A septal deviation if significant and potentially causing breathing problems is usually worth correcting. Hard to tell from photos. Minor side wall asymmetries probably are not worth the attempt to try to make it better because they seem to be within normal limits.
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March 27, 2014
Answer: Septal issue? Dorsum I think that you need to be seen in person to be properly evaluated. A septal deviation if significant and potentially causing breathing problems is usually worth correcting. Hard to tell from photos. Minor side wall asymmetries probably are not worth the attempt to try to make it better because they seem to be within normal limits.
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November 13, 2014
Answer: Big picture vs. Minutia in #rhinoplasty Hi,Overall you have a very decent nose. You cannot make the two sides perfectly symmetric and at least based on these preliminary low resolution pictures, your nose is as symmetric as possible. If you don't want to reduce the small hump, or you dont want to make the tip smaller or lift it up slightly then I would leave it alone. You are chasing minutia and missing the big picture if you decide to pursue what seems to bother you in this case rather than what is aesthetically desirable in general. Alar sidewall reductions are possible and can be made but most often the skin thickness is different from side to side as is the area where each nostril attaches to the cheeks (face). Those cannot be changed. If your septum is deviated and you cant breath then a septoplasty should help with that. You need to go to a specialist and have him or her examine you and do computer imaging and show you what may be possible.
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November 13, 2014
Answer: Big picture vs. Minutia in #rhinoplasty Hi,Overall you have a very decent nose. You cannot make the two sides perfectly symmetric and at least based on these preliminary low resolution pictures, your nose is as symmetric as possible. If you don't want to reduce the small hump, or you dont want to make the tip smaller or lift it up slightly then I would leave it alone. You are chasing minutia and missing the big picture if you decide to pursue what seems to bother you in this case rather than what is aesthetically desirable in general. Alar sidewall reductions are possible and can be made but most often the skin thickness is different from side to side as is the area where each nostril attaches to the cheeks (face). Those cannot be changed. If your septum is deviated and you cant breath then a septoplasty should help with that. You need to go to a specialist and have him or her examine you and do computer imaging and show you what may be possible.
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