- Incisions
- Hump removal
- Nasal septum
- Tip narrowing
- The nasal bones
- Splint
- Tip support
- Shorten the nose
- The nasal spine
- Revision surgery
- The nasion
- Odd cartilages
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Now we should have more
of a discussion about what narrowing the tip cartilages can do for the
appearance of the nose. The two pictures above, and the two pictures
below, show a nose before and after a rhinoplasty during which the tip
cartilages were narrowed. In the pictures below I have outlined
the profile. The smooth line of the
profile is determined by the position of the nasal bones and the upper
lateral cartilages underneath the thin skin.
If the tip cartilages are particularly wide, the profile line takes an abrupt jump outward as the skin drapes over those wide, bulging cartilages, disrupting the smooth contour of the profile, and drawing attention to the area where those tip cartilages reside. The black arrow below shows where the profile line stops being straight, jumping away from the face to follow the wide tip cartilages. |
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In the
"after" pictures on the right, the tip cartilages have been narrowed,
and the profile line is more pleasing, continuing uninterrupted along the bridge
to the tip
of the nose.
The position where the profile line angles out to follow the lower lateral cartilages (at the black arrow) is called the "tip break point," because at that location the profile "breaks away" from the smooth line along the dorsum to follow the tip cartilages. A tip break can be a very attractive feature, but usually not when it is as abrupt as on this patient's before pictures. |
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