Learn About Asian Nasal Tip Rhinoplasty

 
 

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Nasal Tip Rhinoplasty


What's so different about Asian plastic surgery? Learn about the enhancing the shape and projection of the nasal tip.



 
 

Topics >

Asian Rhinoplasty Overview
Findings that cause Asian patients to seek surgical nose reshaping

Anatomy for Asian Rhinoplasty
Terminology and definitions needed to understand rhinoplasty techniques and options

Augmentation Rhinoplasty Options
Features that rhinoplasty can alter or enhance on the Asian nose

Rhinoplasty Implant Choices
Materials that used in augmentation of the nasal dorsum, or spine

Reduction Rhinoplasty
Correcting a bulge or hump along the spine of the nose

Alar Base Excision Rhinoplasty
Decreasing a wide nasal base with excessive flare at the nostrils

Paranasal Augmentation
Implants and injectables to soften a characteristic depression surrounding the nostrils

Non-Surgical Rhinoplasty
Injectable fillers to augment and reshape the Asian nose

Changing Nose Length
Techniques for reduction, elongation, and reshaping of the dorsum, or nasal spine


< Enhancing the Asian Nasal Tip



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The tip of the Asian nose may appear flatter and less projected than in the non-Asian.The tip may be upturned, allowing the nostril to appear overly visible.

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The preferred implant material for building up the nasal tip is cartilage harvested from the patient's own body. Typical donor sites include the ear or the nasal septum separating the two nostrils.

Placed from an incision made just inside the nose (endonasal), common problems after cartilage tip-plasty include rotation of the graft upward or to the side.


Newer techniques employ medical-grade "super-glue" to assemble small pieces of nasal septal cartilage into a more stable and easily implantable three-dimensional graft that can both elongate the tip and enhance its definition and projection. The implant may be placed more directly from an incision along the margin of the nostril.

Simultaneous augmentation of the dorsum, or nasal spine, may be undertaken with silicone, other synthetic bio-compatible implants, or rib cartilage. While older one-piece preformed or custom-carved silicone implants designed to build up the dorsum and tip do exist, results are less natural and more prone to complications such as chronic inflammation, redness, infection, or exposure through the skin.

Patients who have a wide flare at the nostrils may be pleased by the improved appearance that can be achieved with tip enhancement alone, making alar base reduction unnecessary in many cases.

 

 

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Rhinoplasty to alter the Asian nasal tip, or tip-plasty