The doctor changed my entire face I am traumatized. Can someone please help me?! My nose is like a stick. Way too small for my face and he made it narrow and super upturned! I've never been so depressed in my life all I wanted was just to shave a bit off the top. Is it possible to get it close to how it was before? are reverse osteotomies hard to achieve? Lengthiness?
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Hi Spring,There are many ways to refine nostrils, it is not limited to just alar reduction. In fact, alar reduction is the least used method to reshape nostrils. The cartilages underlying the nostrils are usually reshaped to change the nostril shape. As with any aesthetic...
The columella strut graft and suture techniques rotated and shortened your nose. Additionally, removing the bump and creating a curve to the nasal dorsum adds to the rotated/shortened appearance of the nose. Simply undoing these maneuvers will not reverse the results, but they will...
The closed versus open rhinoplasty debate is really a surgeon's preference is to which approach to perform the surgery from. We perform septoplasty, turbinate surgery, dorsal hump removal and rhinoplasty through closed techniques.