Rhinoplasty? Is That With – or Without Surgery?

If you read rhinoplasty advertisements, you’ll see many that promote a procedure widely known as non-surgical rhinoplasty.

Non-surgical nose surgery is the process of making a nose look better by injecting semi-permanent fillers such as:

• Juvederm
• Restylane
• Radiesse

What the ads don’t say:  non-surgical nose surgery is primarily for noses that need only minimal augmentation or small touch-ups.

Consequently, rhinoplasty sans surgery accounts for less than five percent of nose shaping procedures. Plus, the fillers last only about a year or less.

In any case, you should probably consider health before beauty. Many surgical rhinoplasty surgeries also improve breathing.

Then, you might want to consider the cost of non-surgical rhinoplasty.

Because the soft tissue fillers like Restylane are injected deep into the nose and because the human nose is extremely complicated, patients get the best results after seeing a board-certified plastic surgeon or head and neck surgeon who has as lot of practice giving those injections.

(Look for certifications by the board of plastic surgery or the board of otolaryngology, for head and neck surgeons.)

The average cost for non-surgical nose surgery is around $1000.
Rhinoplasty injections are actually used only on a very few places on the nose, including:

• Around small nasal bumps
• To fill in the depression on a boxer’s nose, something your surgeon knows as a saddle nose deformity
• Ski slope noses
• Small pits or depressions on the sides of the nose
• The depressed area between the top lip and nose

However, you would need invasive rhinoplasty to improve the appearance of very large noses, for tip reductions and large humps.

Many Asian and African-American patients, who have a flat bridge, ask for facial fillers to build up that part of the nose.

In some cases, silicone – instead of facial fillers — is injected into the nose. I personally don’t recommend silicone due to the high chances of developing lumps and bumps, or granulation, just under the skin and due to the possibility of infection.

What would you like to do to your nose? Feel free to leave a comment!