Can Rhinoplasty Give Me a Bigger Nose and More Room in Nasal Passages for Breathing?

If you have a small nose or saddle type of nose, then enlarging the size of the nose and elevating the dorsum can help improve breathing. The same goes true for small collapses nostrils. However, just increasing the size of the nose alone is not sufficient to improve breathing. There has to be structural issues that are affecting the nasal airway. People with small noses breathe just as well as people with large noses if there is no compromise of the nasal airway. I hope this information helps.

Hi,

Great question.  Yes, in aumentation rhinoplasty, the nose may be made larger with the use of cartilaginous nasal septal grafts.  Spreader grafts, columellar structs, tip grafts, and lateral alar batten grafts may be used to help improve functional breathing as well.

Choose your rhinoplasty surgeon most carefully.

Good luck and be well.

Dr. P