What Is Rhinoplasty? What a Nose Job Can (and Can’t) Do
Rhinoplasty — a nose job — is surgery to improve the appearance of the nose, from reducing a bump to refining the tip. It can also be combined with septoplasty and turbinate reduction to improve breathing. Dr. Hootan Zandifar explains what rhinoplasty can and can’t do.
What Is Rhinoplasty?
Rhinoplasty — commonly called a nose job — is the surgical procedure to improve the outward appearance of the nose. As Dr. Zandifar notes, there is no single thing rhinoplasty does: it is anything done to refine the appearance, whether reducing a bump on the bridge, narrowing a wide tip, raising a depressed tip, or even building up a nose that is too small.
Improving Looks and Breathing Together
Rhinoplasty isn’t only cosmetic. It can be combined with functional procedures inside the nose — septoplasty to straighten the septum and turbinate reduction to shrink enlarged structures — in a combined procedure called septorhinoplasty. This is the heart of Dr. Zandifar’s dual-board advantage: he can give you a more refined, balanced nose and better breathing in one operation.
Who Benefits From Rhinoplasty?
The best candidates are generally people who are unhappy with the outward appearance of their nose, sometimes alongside breathing concerns. There are limitations and what’s achievable is individualized to your anatomy — which is why an in-person consultation is the right way to learn whether rhinoplasty is a good fit for your goals.
Frequently Asked Questions
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