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Steven M. Denenberg, M.D.
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In the before picture, the cartilages that form the tip of her nose are fully present.  Above the tip cartilages is the divot resulting from loss of some tissue in that area.  Above the divot, her nasal bones are in their normal position.

If you know where the nasal bones normally reside, you can see their outline in the before picture above.  If you'd like to find out more about the location of the nasal bones and how they are addressed during surgery, check out that chapter of the rhinoplasty surgery tutorial (the surgery tutorials contain explicit photographs taken during surgery).


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Next: an example of the solid advice Dr. Denenberg gives patients on RealSelf.com.
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Questioner: Is There Any Kind of Procedure for my Kind of Nose?
Theres a bit of cartilage at the base of my nose under my top lip which makes my nose and my profile longer (pic 1&3) Can anything be done about this? I think its because of this cartilage which runs from the columella to my bone which cause my nose to be pinocchio-esque. The Nasofrontal Angle is rather small around 100 degrees and in (2) you can see that the alar base is not in-line with columella base, its rather lower. From the front this makes my nostrils more pronounced (4).
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Dr. Denenberg's answer: Your nose mainly requires deprojection, bringing the tip back closer to the face
You have a strongly projecting tip, and otherwise many attractive features to your nose. Respectfully, I don't think it's the bone at the base of the nose that makes the tip projecting -- that bone is only rarely the culprit. It's almost always the length and strength of the lateral crura of the tip cartilages that provide the support and strength to overproject the tip. I made a morph to show what your nose can look like after surgery. You need a surgeon who can prove to you that he is expert in deprojecting noses; many, if not most, of the revisions that I perform relate to deprojecting noses that were inadequately projected during the primary operation.

Link to this question on RealSelf.com