African American Rhinoplasty

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Rhinoplasty is intended to add softness and harmony of the face or even functionality to any face, regardless of one's race. For instance, enhanced projection of the African American nose can be achieved by infractures as well. With subtle differences like this the projection of the nose is enhanced without changing the overall ethnicity of the face. Infractures thin out naturally wide nasal areas and add projection in the process. If this is not adequate implants can be used. Nasal bones are broken (which they are meticulously fractured) and reset as well - It is not as difficult to recover from as it sounds. If a hump is present, an osteotomy (where bone is divided or removed) cab be performed; the dorsal hump can be rasped (filed down).

If it is narrowing of naturally wide nostrils, this can be done by either excising sections from the alar base (floor of the nose) or at the crease where the side of the nose meets the face. If you would like restructuring and definition in the tip of the nose this can be done by removing key sections of cartilage with scissors or a scalpel.

There really is no difference because of the racial parameters. Although a doctor should ascertain that the end result will not look unnatural and out of place. It is more of the way the nose is structured and the possibility of keloid scarring (where excessive scar tissue branches out further than the actual wound) or hypo- (lack of) and hyper- (too much) pigmentation is a little higher is the more ethnic individuals but other than that if a Caucasian individual were to have a flatter, less prominent and wider nose, he or she would need the same type of surgery. Bottom line is the rhinoplasty surgery should be based upon the individual structure of each and every patient's nose and surrounding facial structure -- not just because they are of a different race.