My nose is ruining my life and really destroyed my confidence. I always wanna get a rhinoplasty but uncertain if there's even hope for me. My nose has a thick wide skin and I'm not sure how to describe this to a doctor and how I want it to look like. I just want it to look good in my face. I came from Philippines so I am a Filipino. Tell me there is hope for me. I hate looking at my face in front of the mirror every single day.
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This is most commonly due to the swelling and mucous hyper secretion in reaction to surgery, not a turbinate problem (unless the turbinates were a problem before surgery and weren't addressed). I usually tell my patients they need to wait 6-8 weeks before they should be able to reliably see an...
In our practice, we believe that a straight nose is more attractive whether there is facial asymmetry or not. The decision to perform a rhinoplasty for a crooked nose is a personal one, so only the patient can make that decision. To straighten a crooked nose can be accomplished with a cl...
It has been my practice over 30 years to recommend to D1 athletes in potentially contact sports that they wait until the end of their competition years to do a rhinoplasty. Rhinoplasty in June would interfere with your training for about a month.
