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Correcting A Short Nose Is A Common Beverly Hills Nose Surgery
By admin | September 25, 2009
Correcting A Short Nose Is A Common Beverly Hills Nose Surgery
Revision rhinoplasty is common in Beverly Hills because there is a certain percentage of patients who are unhappy with their surgery previously performed elsewhere. Here in Beverly Hills, where we have several surgeons with a long track record of experience and superspecialization, patients congregate to have the more the difficult nasal surgeries performed.
One of the more common consequences of an overzealous or overdone rhinoplasty is that the nose is “too short.” The nose tips up and the angle between the nose and the lip is so great that sometimes it looks like the nostrils may fall prey to a thunderstorm. Perhaps there was inadequate surgery done at the junction between the nose and the lip. This can be improved. The nasal spine and the caudal septum, whether straight or deviated, may be altered and that sharpens the nose-lip angle. This makes the nose look much less pug or upturned. If that is not an option, cartilage can be transplanted just behind the tip to push it forward. Another technique is to use a filler to plump the skin of the tip just between the opening to the nostrils and this again leads to a more satisfactory nose-lip angle. Also remember that a nose looks overly-short if the bridge has been taken down too much. If the nose has that overdone ski-slope look, filling this defect either with a cartilage graft or even with office-performed filling injections will raise the bridge and make the nose look much less short.
Understand that much of what we do has to do with illusions and appearances – small differences can make a big difference.
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