Category: rhinoplasty

Nasal Lengthening in the Asian Nose

Rhinoplasty in the Asian nose is well know to be an augmentation operation, raising the bridge of the nose and increasing tip projection. Together these changes fundamentally increase nasal length which is measured as the distance from the nasion to the tip-defining point. Besides nasal length, other measurements used to define the short nose including Read More…

Revisional Rhinoplasty – Prevention and Operative Techniques

It is well acknowledged that rhinoplasty is one of the most challenging of all aesthetic plastic surgeries. This translates into a significant after surgery incidence of some level of aesthetic dissatisfaction and nasal airway compromise. Estimates vary but the risk of the need for revisional surgery after rhinoplasty is around 15%. Unfortunately secondary rhinoplasty Read More…

Case Study: The Injectable Rhinoplasty

Background: The use of injectable fillers has revolutionized the whole approach to facial rejuvenation, particularly for the early aging patient. It is no surprise that their ease of injection and immediate volumetric effects has led to their use for structural facial changes such as chin augmentation. Such use has even been extended to nose reshaping Read More…

Case Study: Rhinoplasty for the Ultra-Projecting Nose

Background: The nose has a large number of aesthetic deformities of which the vast number of them either are tip-based or the tip is a part of the overall problem. When a person has complaints about a nose that is too big, that could mean a variety of issues. The nasal tip could be just Read More…

The Role of the Chin in Profileplasty

It is very common that multiple procedures are done on the face at the same time. Whether it be for anti-aging effects or for reshaping a face, combinations of procedures produce more profound changes. This is because the face is made up of many different parts and making significant changes often requires altering more than Read More…

The Risk of Revisional Surgery in Rhinoplasty

Rhinoplasty is well known to be a challenging aesthetic facial procedure. The interactions of the numerous nasal parts and the healing process do not always make for a completely predictable result. The skin of the nose is the one anatomic element that the plastic surgeon can not change and it can frequently lead to undesireable Read More…

Profileplasty by Rhinoplasty and Sliding Genioplasty

While one does not see their face in a profile view naturally (only in pictures), the world sees your face in three-quarter view or in profile. Thus the perception of one’s own facial profile is important and it is stressed in many plastic surgery procedures. The two most important hard structures that make up the Read More…

Case Study: Rhinoplasty Reduction of the Long Overprojected Nose

Background: The nose presents a very wide array of problems for reshaping by rhinoplasty surgery. There are nearly a dozen different pieces of anatomy to the nose and how they arranged and their size is what creates the diversity of the shape problems seen. But there are a handful of common problems that the rhinoplasty surgeon Read More…

Safe Techniques in Injectable Rhinoplasty

Unlike many other facial plastic surgery procedures, there are few non-surgical alternatives to rhinoplasty surgery. The only way to make permanent nose shape changes is to alter the underlying bone and cartilage framework. Such alterations ultimately get reflected on the outside as the nasal skin adapts. The only non-surgical treatment option to help change the Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Original Nosejob

The desire to change or make up a new nose has been around for a long time. The first recorded nose job is written in the ancient Indian Sanskrit texts around 600 BC. Doctor would reconstruct noses by taking a strip of skin from the forehead or cheeks, twisting the skin side over a Read More…