Is There Any Way to Correct my Nose Without Surgery? (photo)

The role that non-surgical rhinoplasty can play in addressing asymmetries of the nose is limited. While small filler amounts can fill subtle divids and camouflage contour depressions and deficiencies by solely achieving a "filling" function, they fail when "sculpting" and "reshaping" is really what the true aesthetic goals should be. In cases of significant asymmetry, often controlled breakage of the bones (osteotomy) and excision of deformed cartilages with structural and/or camouflage cartilage grafting is required to properly correct the asymmetry and obtain long term and yet natural looking results.

Hello and thank you for your question. Based on your single photograph, surgery is the best way to straighten your crooked nose. Nonsurgical methods do not work well for this. I recommend that you seek consultation with a qualified board-certified plastic surgeon who can evaluate you in person.

Best wishes and good luck.

Richard G. Reish, M.D.
Harvard-trained plastic surgeon

As a specialist in rhinoplasty surgery, I hear concerns like yours all the time. It is very common to have a crooked nose even without any trauma. You may have a deviated septum causing the crookedness, or it just might be the way your body grew and matured. Some providers might offer you an injectable filler to the nose in an attempt to equalize the two sides, which would just give the illusion the nose is straight, but would make your nose much wider. If this truly bothers you, which it might not since you hadn’t noticed it until someone pointed it out, I recommend consulting with a board certified plastic surgeon to discuss your concerns and to see if rhinoplasty is the right option for you. On the other hand, if it doesn’t bother you, you could also just leave your nose alone, since it is perfectly normal to have some asymmetry.

In many cases, there is no way to correct a severe nasal asymmetry without surgery. Minor irregularities, shadowing, and deficiencies can be helped with filler, but a very crooked nose cannot, especially when the tip is deviated. Adding filler to the nose in these cases will typically just make the nose look wide, but not really correct the problem or even camouflage it very well.
Rhinoplasty surgery is needed to correct a significantly crooked nose such as the one pictured in the attached photo. This is an elective procedure, however, and only needed if the patient is bothered the appearance.
Be sure to see a rhinoplasty expert if surgery is under consideration.
All the best,

There are non surgical interventions that can enhance the appearance of a nose such as injection with fillers.  Filler scan soften the appearance of a hump on the bridge of the nose or even out asymmetries.  However looking at your photo, it would be difficult to make your nose straight or give it the presence of symmetry using filler without causing it to appear too wide.  A septorhinoplasty would be the best procedure for you to straighten your nose.  However if the appearance of your nose doesn't bother you, you also don't have to do  anything about it.  It is very rare to find somebody whose faces completely symmetric - they say less than 10% of all people have totally symmetric face.