My nose is PRETTY straight but up close I feel kinda bad because it is a tad crooked. Can a really good looking person have a perfectly symmetrical nose or is there really always gonna be a slight deviation/crookedness in certain angles no matter what?
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Arian Mowlavi, MD, FACS (license on probation) says:
Photos are very confusing. Is this you or not? Whether a nose can be made to look like someone elses nose requires you to show us your nose and the person's nose you are striving for.
Dear mynameislizzy,
Nostril asymmetry can occur both in
width and height and there can also be width asymmetries in nostrils. Generally, soft tissue reductions of the
nostril base can fix vertical and horizontal discrepancies. Wedge resections can thin the apparent width
of a nostril and...
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