Dr. Steven Denenberg's facial plastic surgery before and afters: Rhinoplasty, combination noses #1

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Let's try to evaluate the surgical changes from this frontal view. You can see some of the changes from removing the hump: the before picture has two parallel vertical white stripes along the dorsum of his nose. Those stripes are the return from the flashes in my photo room. The stripes give you a feel for the position of the dorsum and the presence of the hump, and they are missing in the after picture.

Nasal length: in the after picture, we can see just a glimpse of his nostrils. That glimpse is our indication that his nose was shortened, because in the before picture, his somewhat droopy tip hung over and obscured our view of the nostrils.

Actually, he has his head tilted down slightly in the before picture, but the analysis is still valid. (You can tell that his head is tilted down a bit by looking at his right eye and his right ear. In the after picture, his right eye is at the level of the top of his ear. In the before picture, his right eye sits below the level of the top of the ear.)

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All views of this rhinoplasty patient:

rhinoplasty 1: Left oblique	rhinoplasty 2: Right profile	rhinoplasty current: Frontal

rhinoplasty 4: Right oblique	rhinoplasty 5: Left profile	rhinoplasty 6: Right oblique

rhinoplasty 7: Left oblique

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Questioner: Is There Really No Chance for Improvement with Revision Rhinoplasty, or This Surgeon is Just Not Capable to Fix my Nose?
I had closed rhino 4 y ago.looked for more feminine nose.The results were bad.For scar tissue on the supratip I had a series of kenalog shots,ultrasound therapy,tried with endermologie.Nose is still uneven and big.I decided to have a revision.I find a surgeon who changed his mind in the last minute, told me that my nose with next operation will be worst and bigger,because my organism is prone to make scar tissue and that every surgeon who say that will fix my nose,only wont to take my money!?
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Dr. Denenberg's answer: More improvement might be possible in the profile than the width of the tip area
Hi,

In general, the more we want to change a nose in a revision, the more likely we are to get a meaningful improvement. See my "Web reference" link for a morph I made of your nose, and I'll explain in more detail.

If we are only trying to subtly thin the scar tissue at the tip of your nose, that's not likely to work well enough to make a worthwhile difference. But if we wanted to make changes along the lines of my morph, we're much more likely to succeed: if we shorten your nose substantially, and bring it back closer to your face, then even if the amount of thinning of the tip is disappointing, there will be enough other big changes to make you happy with your revision. Your nose would look smaller, but perhaps in a different way than you tried with the Kenalog shots, etc.

In capable hands, elevating the tip of the nose is one of the most predictable changes to make, even in a revision. It requires advanced work on the tip of the nose, though, so you have to be sure, by looking at before and after photos, that your surgeon has proven his skill by accomplishing those changes for his other patients.

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