Refining Nose Sides Possible with a Nose Job?

In order to thin the nose the nasal bones would require to be thinned and brought closer together. The tip is also a little wide requiring a finesse tip rhinoplasty. Your nose is also a little short causing ti to look a little piggy (upturned), this would only be corrected by slightly derotating the tip using cartilage grafting.

The side walls would need to be fractured to narrow them the right way. You are right is thinking that you will need the tip narrowed as well. See an experienced rhinoplasty surgeon who does natural noses that you like.

More photos would be required to give more accurate suggestions. However, it appears to me that you would benefit from a finesse rhinoplasty to thin and enhance your nose. Typically the procedure is done under local anesthesia with twighlight sleep.

A side view would show the upturned tip. In this case, you may benefit from a septal extension graft which would push the tip forward and give the illusion of a longer and thinner nose. In this instance,  you could also benefit from enhanced projection along with nostril reduction. Without cutting the bones, your only option to give the illusion of a thinner nose is to add a graft to the top of the bridge to make it appear taller and thinner.

Hi Saphira,
The thickness of your nostril rims laterally is very difficult to correct in most cases. At your consultation for rhinoplasty, make sure that your prospective surgeon addresses this, and ask to see photos of patients with a similar nose to yours.
Do choose your surgeon most carefully.
Good luck and be well.
Dr. P

The width of your nostrils and tip can be refined with Rhinoplasty Surgery. Everyone's nose will widen with smiling, so your single smiling photo is not the gold-standard for determining what's best for you. If your bridge is perfect, then you may not need osteotomies.
You should consult several board-certifird, experienced Rhinoplasty specialists with many favorable photos to determine what's best for you.
I hope you find this helpful.

Hi,
Without having seen your profile photo, here is what I think: You have an attractive face but your nose doesn't fit your face. The nasal tip is too bulky, which is due to cartilage, which can be refined. Partial nasal bone narrowing would be desirable as well, especially if you are going to make the tip more refined. Again, you want the nose to be natural and fit your face.

Judging by your picture and what you describe, it sounds like you have wide nasal bones along with some excess tip width. A rhinoplasty could certainly be performed to move the sides of the nose inward making for a thinner shape, along with refining and shaping the tip to match the rest. You would not chisel the nasal bones, but reposition them. The chisel is used when a nose has a large hump that needs to be removed. This should not significantly change the contour of your bridge, which sounds OK.

Narrowing or refining the sides of your nose with a small amount of tip narrowing is certainly possible. How much or how little work is done to a nose is a combination of patient preferences and surgeon recommendations. Also, other views of your nose would be needed to make a more complete assessment. I hope this information helps.

The only way to narrow the sidewalls of the nose is to perform osteotomies and narrow the nasal mucosa, also known as “breaking” the nose. That is the only way possible to narrow the nose. Thick, oily skin will be a limitation to any surgical enhancement of the nose because it just does not allow for excellent definition of the cartilaginous and bony structures once they have been reshaped.