Is it true that scar tissue contracting can cause the septum to shorten? Rhinoplasty/ septorhinoplasty

Hello and thank you for your question and the pictures. You actually have a difficult problem. To properly address your nose and improve your facial balance, you would need an open septorhinoplasty with lengthening of your nose to improve the overall harmony of your different facial features and...

The easiest way to determine if somebody has a deviated nasal septum is to examine them in person. Sometimes the deviated nasal septum can cause a deviation of the nasal tip. And sometimes this can be seen in the base view of the nose. Unfortunately, the photographs that you posted are blurry on...

If you don't have any trouble breathing through your nose, and if your goal is to just repair the indentation along your right nasal sidewall, depending on your examination, microdroplet Silikon-1000 injections may be considered for permanently achieving a straighter nasal appearance. Thank you...

When somebody has excessively thin nasal skin, we are limited with the amount of cartilage grafting that we can use, since many of these grafts can become visible through thin nasal tip skin. Additionally, if somebody has excessively thick nasal tip skin, we can thin this out directly during the...

There are many ways to deal with thick nasal tip skin, and if somebody were to develop a poorly healed wound on the tip of their nose, it may make the entirety of the operation not worth it. Additionally, somebody with thick skin can have their skin thinned out directly by their surgeon at the...

The magnet in an MRI machine is very strong, however, if something is not magnetic, like cartilage, it will not move or warp in the presence of such a magnetic field. Thank you for your question. Sincerely, Dr Joseph