Is my Nose Broken? Can I Fix It Without Surgery? (photo)

I read your concerns and reviewed your photos: Your photos show your nose up close, but most of your face is missing, so it is difficult to make recommendations with the data you provided. Feel free to re ask your question with full-face photos; before photos would be helpful too. In...

Hello, Scrunching up your nose as a facial expression when you were startled should not affect the results of your rhinoplasty at 3 weeks post-op. I recommend that you do not put yourself in situation where possible nasal trauma could occur accidentally as you will be jeopardizing your...

Hello, Usually, the nasal developmental maturity is reaches at the age of 16. Based on that, you should be a little patient and have mother nature take its course to provide with the final outcome of your development. Then, your mature nose will be a solid ground on which your surgeon...

I cannot be definitive without a formal physical examination, but as a general rule, it is ideal to use your own body's tissue.  It is most readily accepted by your own immune system, and least likely to cause problems with rejection, extrusion, infection or migration.   I usually...

During - no not in my opinion Take two of the most important and complex procedures and combine them on the same day and you are deviding the surgeons attention between two very intense procedures.  I am not saying that I would not and will not ever do them on the same patient the same...

Radix reduction and radix augmentation are routinely incorporated portions of the rhinoplasty procedure, and there are photos of both on our website gallery.  As other responders suggest, bone at the radix is thick, and can be most expeditiously reduced with a power burr.  The maneuver...