The tip of the nose has a complex anatomical structure.Therefore, even a seemingly simple plastic surgery aimed at correcting a slight droop or reduction in the size of the nose should be performed only by a very experienced plastic surgeon.It is important that the surgeon has specialist knowledge, many years of experience and skill.
Drooping tip of the nose: reasons and ways to raise it
The main reasons for the problem:
- Hereditary factor.The defect may be congenital
- The problem may be due to injury
- This can be a complication after an unsuccessful rhinoplasty
- Or the nose has drooped due to age-related changes in the body.
Whatever the reason, such an aesthetic problem can cause great anxiety in a person.How can it be eliminated?The nose lift is carried out using plastic surgery using the following basic methods:
First way- Correction of the shape of the nose, including cutting off part of the lateral cartilage at the tip.It is performed in cases where the problem is congenital.The location from which a piece of cartilage will be removed is determined only after a thorough preoperative examination.
After cutting off the excess cartilage, the remaining parts are brought together and then sutured.It depends on the precision and experience of the surgeon when carrying out such operations.
Second way– Strengthening the columella with a transplant made from the patient’s own cartilage tissue.
Third method– Shortening of part of the nasal muscle that is supposed to hold the tip in the desired position.
Wide tip rhinoplasty
Another problem that people come to the plastic surgery clinic with is a wide, large tip.It is also called “potato”.If such a defect occurs when you are young, it usually becomes more noticeable over the years as the ligaments that hold the lateral cartilages together are stretched.
There are three types of this nose shape:
- Not very wide
- Very broad and fleshy
- Forked
To reduce the size of a not very wide nose, it is often necessary to bring the domes of large cartilages closer together.Plastic surgeons say that rhinoplasty of the tip of the nose can even be performed closed.You can clearly see how this works in the following video.
Reduced round, fleshy tip with thick skin
A fleshy, very wide round nose is often reduced in size by cutting off some of the cartilage that forms the dome and then piecing it together.Schematically it could look something like this:
If a person has thick skin, expect severe swelling that will take much longer to heal than usual.
Taper of the wide fork tip
A bifurcated tip can be the result of an unsuccessful rhinoplasty.To eliminate the defect, a graft taken from the patient is placed between the tips of the lateral cartilages.The nose at the end takes on a nice rounded shape.
Nostril reduction surgery
Sometimes the nose looks wide due to the large wings.This is the simplest case when an aesthetic defect can be corrected by reducing the size of the nostrils.This operation is not very traumatic.In this case, recovery takes twice as fast and there is no significant swelling after the operation.
Why does the tip of the nose droop after rhinoplasty?
Immediately after rhinoplasty, the patient's nose may look either slightly up or slightly down.Is this normal or a complication?Do you need to do something immediately?
Plastic surgeons note that the nose may droop slightly.Often this problem occurs due to severe swelling and disappears over time as the swelling decreases.
If the problem does not go away, it can be said to be a complication caused by a surgeon's error.This usually happens when excess tissue has been removed.
Due to the individual body characteristics of the patient, the nose may droop.It is abnormal tissue scarring in the incision area in the columella area after open rhinoplasty.
In any case, you should wait at least 6 to 8 months before worrying.It takes exactly that long until the residual swelling has subsided enough for the final result to be assessed.If the nose droops a little due to swelling, it should rise after 2 months and take its final shape after the period specified at the beginning of this paragraph.
A second operation can only be considered if the problem is really serious and the fears are justified.A second operation is possible just one year after the first operation.
If the nose is very upturned after rhinoplasty, how long does it take for it to go down again?
Some people's nose wrinkles after cosmetic surgery.This problem occurs due to internal swelling of the soft tissue.If you look at the posts on forums from patients who found themselves in a similar situation, it turned out that in most of them the shape of the nose was restored after six months.