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Sort of depends on the kind of fighting you do. If you wear head protection, then that's great. If you're always getting punched in the nose, then you might think about waiting until you end your career. If surgery seems like a reasonable idea, remember that rhinoplasty is an exquisitely difficult operation to get right, and you should only have surgery if you are able to make yourself very confident in your surgeon's skills. Read my essay on how to stay out of trouble while selecting a rhinoplasty surgeon.
A modern, structural approach to rhinoplasty should not leave your nose weaker. However if you received a serious injury to your nose after surgery it would be much more difficult to fix and you may not get as good a result again. Unless your nose is badly blocked I would not advise rhinoplasty until you have stopped boxing.
Hi @kaylarene4! It is not ideal to shave down a dorsal hump without performing osteotomies because when the dorsal hump is shaved down, the bridge across the left and right nasal bones will be removed. This leads you with a wide flat bridge and visible left nasal bone and a separate visible...
In order to complete the recovery of nasal bone and soft tissues, you should wait 1 year after facial trauma. If the surgery is performed before completing the nasal bone recovery, the bone deformity possibility is high.
As far as I can see from the photos you've sent, there is an asymmetry in your nasal wings and an irregularity in the cartilage tissue. The most effective method I can recommend for solving this situation is atraumatic, Preservation Rhinoplasty for your nose surgery.