If I take my nose implant out will the tip look weird considering it is a little higher now?

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I had a rhino plasty and alarplasty and have an implant in my nose. I hate how it looks and want to have a more similar looking nose to what i had before. If i take the implant out will the tip of my nose look weird considering it is a little higher now?

Joseph Shvidler, MD · Answer

Any implant will stretch the skin soft tissue envelope. If you choose to remove it, the  skin soft tissue envelope on your nose will have to contract. This may be quite unpredictable unless you replace it with another implant or graft. I usually recommend filling that space with either cartilage graft or dermal implant like Alloderm. Once skin contraction occurs,  it is almost impossible to re-expand that skin and may pull your tip upwards even more.

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