I am an 18 year old female, 5’6 and 175, working to lose a good amount of weight before looking into a very possible surgery. I have a very round nose, quite bulbous, and I’m very interested in a plasty since my nose seems to be done developing. It’s been like this forever. I hide the bulbous-ness by “posing” my nose, where I can move the muscles in my nasal region so the tip appears slimmer and closer to my mouth. I am curious about the cost of a surgery, what the best kind of surgery would be, and how long it would take to fully recover or get back to moving around and going to school. If this is too much and would just require a consultation, I understand. Thank you. It’s something I’ve been insecure about and disliked for as long as I can remember. It’s one of two things that bother me, the other being my weight, which I can change. Even after losing a lot of weight a few years back, my nose looked the same. I just want to relax, and not worry about “posing” my nose all the time to feel comfortable with myself. In my mind, I am beautiful, but when I look in the mirror my face does not match what I percieve myself to be.
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It sounds like you don’t have any functional issues with breathing, but you are concerned about the aesthetics of your nose. And primarily at the tip in which case a tip rhinoplasty may be enough. If there are other concerns, you want to address than a full rhinoplasty may be the better option. ...
Based on your photos, you are a great candidate for rhinoplasty. Fillers to the nasal tip can be done (usually with minimal risk if the injector knows what he/she is doing), but the result will only be temporary. Rhinoplasty can give a permanent result while refining other parts of the nose at...
Hello and thank you for your question. Based on your photographs, you may benefit from a tip refining revision rhinoplasty. Your surgeon can accomplish this by trimming, suturing, and reshaping the cartilage in your lower nose. Fascial grafts may also be used to help improve tip refinement....