Nose jobs becoming ever more common Surgeons performed over 223,000 nose-reshaping procedures in America in 2016, up from just under 218,000 the previous year. Not all of these procedures were done for aesthetic reasons. Some of them were done to correct medical...
A very popular form of plastic surgery Rhinoplasty is the most popular form of facial plastic surgery in America today. The nose is right in the middle of the face, the one place you cannot hide anything. The precise size and exact contours of the nose can mean the...
A case of teen Charlotte rhinoplasty (The following are dramatizations.) Sarah had been self-conscious about her nose for most of her life, and it had only gotten worse since the onset of puberty. If it had been acne, she could have hidden it with makeup or by hanging...
Emily gets ready for rhinoplasty (The following is a dramatization.) Emily was going away to college in the fall. She wanted this to be a new start in life. A new place, new friends, and a new nose. Her nose was kind of flared in the nostrils and a little bit drooping...
Talk with your rhinoplasty surgeon first There’s a reason for the expression “plain as the nose on your face.” Your nose is right in the middle of your face, and if there’s anything wrong with it, you can’t hide it. It’s understandable that you’ll want it changed....
Different nose jobs for different noses Everyone wants a different kind of nose job. Okay, maybe this is an exaggeration — over a hundred thousand rhinoplasties are performed every year, and there aren’t that many different kinds of rhinoplasties that can be performed...
