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Do you perform alar base reductions with lip lift?

gg_2Jul 4, 2022
Do you perform these procedures together or separately? Is it safe to do them separately? Considering doing them separately would mean cutting through the same incision line more than once?

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You may be looking at a scar from an open rhinoplasty which makes an incision between the nostrils. However you can also use that incision to shorten the columella but cutting out a small segment of skin

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