If a piece of skin is cut away on the nose, can the tip be raised and stay raised? (Photos)

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Just humour me here. I am fully aware that this is not how to raise the tip. Just leave all that aside and humour me for a moment. If a piece of skin is cut away and the wound is sewn together, would this raise the tip and would is stay raised? If you believe it would not raise the tip or it would not stay raised, can you explain why?

Steven M. Denenberg, MD · Answer

It's one of those things that makes perfect mechanical sense when you think about it, but when you actually try it, it doesn't work.
The problem is that the cartilages in the tip of the nose are trying to hold the tip down, and they are very strong, and if they are not changed, they will over-power the work you did by removing the skin, and the tip will stretch back down again. It'd probably take just a month for that to happen. Maybe less.
Further, with all the tension on the scar, the scar would stretch and depress, and would be just outrageously ugly, right in the middle of your nose.

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