Featured Patient
We were thrilled to see our beautiful 24-year-old patient today, 3 YEARS after functional and cosmetic rhinoplasty surgery, and lower eyelid blepharoplasty to remove her congenital under-eye bags. You can see in her preoperative photos that there is a cleft between her tip cartilages, which is indicative of thin nasal skin. Generally, those with thin nasal skin are more likely to see imperfections or irregularities after rhinoplasty surgery, so skillful and well-planned surgery is most important.
When she came to visit us, she did not like her bulbous and over-projected nasal tip appearance. You can see that her nose was too long, that her wide tip stuck out too far from her face, and that this was associated with a dorsal hump. Since she had thin skin and was noted to have collapse of her external nasal valves with inspiration, her functional surgery consisted of correcting her deviated nasal septum and reinforcing her external nasal valves with lateral crural extension grafts. These cartilage grafts were repurposed from her deviated nasal septal cartilage that was causing obstruction.
From a cosmetic standpoint, our goal was to create narrow, straight bridge lines that would descend to a circular, lifted, and deprojected nasal tip appearance, along with lowering her dorsal hump for a less distracting and more feminine nasal appearance. Whenever considering rhinoplasty surgery, it is very important, in our opinion, to ensure that your prospective surgeon posts long-term follow-up results. In most cases, it takes 12 months or longer for someone to realize their final result. Additionally, you can see a natural-looking and rejuvenated under-eye appearance without her under-eye fat pads that were previously distracting preoperatively.
