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If you want to learn more about reshaping a wide nose with rhinoplasty surgery, this guide covers the topic for you.
We all get more exposure to social media nowadays, and facial aesthetics are becoming more and more important for people.
As our nose is our central facial feature, both interest in nose jobs and the number of procedures performed is increasing worldwide, and in the UK as well.
We go over the details of what Rhinoplasty is, the types of treatments available for fixing a wide nose, how the procedure is performed and what can you expect during recovery.
Rhinoplasty – also commonly called nose job – is a surgical procedure aimed at fixing any cosmetic imperfections of the nose.
Berkeley Square Medical is a leading provider of nose jobs at our London clinic.
There are many different types of nose jobs, depending on the area of concern such as the nostrils, the tip or the base and the nature of the cosmetic issue such as asymmetry, physical damage, size reduction or structural problems.
Even rhinoplasty for a wide nose can be performed in multiple ways depending on the area of the nose in question. We detail the narrowing of the nasal base and the overall nose in this guide.
For reducing the width of the nostrils only, please refer to our article about alar base surgery.
Rhinoplasty can correct a wide nose in the hands of an experienced facial plastic surgeon. The narrowing of the width of the middle section is called a wide nose bridge rhinoplasty. The reduction of the width of the tip of the nose is done by tip correction or nasal tip plasty.
The reduction of the width of the nose bridge can be done by narrowing (in-fracturing) the nasal bones and repositioning them closer to each other. A wide nasal tip or wide nostrils can be corrected by proportionating part of the cartilage that makes up the tip of the nose.
The other option to achieve a visually pleasing nose proportion is available for those patients with a wide and flat nose.
Here, you and your surgeon might decide to use augmentation rhinoplasty instead. This procedure involves adding cartilage to raise the profile of the nose. This may be cartilage from the nose itself or harvested form behind the ear. This type of nose job does not change the width but by raising the profile of the nose, it will achieve the desired nose shape in a different way.
As is the case for all nose surgeries, you will meet your specialist on a consultation where you will discuss all options available to you in detail. Once you have decided on the path forward, your surgeon will schedule your procedure and provide you with instructions on how to prepare for surgery.
Nose jobs are typically day procedures performed under local anesthesia.
Narrowing the bridge requires small, precise fractures of the nasal bone made by your surgeon. These smaller pieces can then be moved and repositioned to form the desired nasal pyramid structure.
Osteotomy can be further divided into lateral and medial surgery, depending on the exact bones involved in the process. (1)
The procedure can be done via either a closed or an open surgery, depending on the area of the nose that needs to be fixed.
Learn more about the pros and cons of open rhinoplasty here. The advantages and disadvantages of closed rhinoplasty are detailed in this article.
Non surgical or liquid nose jobs are popular options for patients not wanting to go under the knife. They involve the use of hyaluronic acid fillers injected into the nose.
They can provide results for around 6 months to a year but typically used to correct smaller imperfections of the shape of the nose.
Since fixing a wide nose usually means bones or cartilage needs to be removed or repositioned, a non surgical rhinoplasty is not usually the best option for this type of nose correction.
This is the simplest and quickest option for narrowing a wide nose. If you need a fast solution for a date or special occasion in the near future, this might be the only solution available to you.
You can find several excellent tutorial videos on YouTube detailing the steps needed to achieve a narrower look for your nose.
At Berkeley Square Medical, we charge a convenient all-inclusive price for all rhinoplasty procedures. This is currently £6450.00 (Price as of July 2021) and includes all expenses before, during and after the surgery.
Nose surgeries in general require an experienced facial plastic surgeon considering the huge impact of our nose in our overall facial aesthetics.
This is even more important for a wide nose surgery, since this procedure involves the breaking of your bones as part of the process.
Always enquire about the number of nose surgeries successfully performed by the specialist.
For the best results, you may need to consider paying a higher price for a surgeon with more experience in this exact type of procedure.
One of the best ways to choose your surgeon is by asking to see before and after photos of their past patients.
You can see the results of some of our past patients on this page.
The shape of your nose is usually determined by your genetics and there is not much you can do to change that apart from surgery.
A flat or wide nose can also be the result of an injury or in some cases a poorly performed previous nose job.
There are several videos and gimmicks circulating on the internet that promise to narrow your nose if you follow certain exercises. These are usually just that: gimmicks.
If you think about it, the width of your nose is either determined by your nasal bones or cartilage and there is no amount of exercise that will change the size and shape of those.
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