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Nasal contouring

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Last reviewed: 04.07.2025
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Modern aesthetic medicine strives for the most comfortable and effective ways to correct appearance defects, and in order to correct visual defects, it is sometimes not necessary to resort to serious operations. Contour plastic surgery of the nose is just one of the many methods of relatively painless, effective and safe formation of this area.

The shape of the nose does not always suit a person who strives for an ideal appearance. Surgical plastic surgery can correct what nature and parents gave, but it is difficult to decide on it, since such interventions are painful and accompanied by inevitable postoperative complications.

Contour rhinoplasty is more correctly called injection rhinoplasty, the name speaks for itself. The so-called beauty injections based on hyaluronic acid give the nose a new shape. Naturally, contour rhinoplasty cannot compete with surgery, such a procedure should not be considered a full-fledged corrective method. The shape of the nose will not change dramatically, the result is also short-lived, but such a gentle technique is quite suitable for correcting not very visible defects that do not necessarily need to be corrected with a large and complex operation.

Indications for contour plastic surgery of the nose

What defects in the nose area can be corrected with contour plastic surgery?

  • Asymmetry of the wings of the nose.
  • Correction of the nose after injury.
  • Correction of the tip of the nose.
  • The ability to correct the angle between the bridge of the nose and the forehead area.
  • Correction of the area between the upper lip and nose.
  • Correction of the midline of the nose (hump).

How does the injection rhinoplasty procedure work?

Non-surgical rhinoplasty is performed using injections, that is, a special filler is injected into the area that is being made more perfect, most often made on the basis of hyaluronic acid, which is bioavailable to the body, which is accepted as an organic substance and does not cause rejection. The course of injections can be called painless, since before the procedure the nasal area is anesthetized by applying a local anesthetic.

Is it possible to form a “new” nose by introducing the drug in several ways?

  • Subcutaneous injections.
  • Intradermal injection of filler.
  • Subdermal administration of the drug.
  • Submucosal injections.

At the end of the procedure, the doctor performs a delicate massage of the nose, distributing the filler over the corrected area according to the task at hand.

What are the benefits of rhinoplasty?

  • Absence of pain.
  • The procedure takes no more than 30-40 minutes.
  • Does not require special training.
  • It is not accompanied by postoperative complications in the form of swelling, hematomas, sutures and scars.
  • The effect of the injected drug lasts from 6 months to 1 year, so the shape of the nose can be “changed” almost annually depending on the client’s preferences.
  • No rehabilitation period.
  • Accessibility in terms of the financial component of the procedure.
  • A small list of contraindications compared to full-fledged surgical rhinoplasty.

Before plastic surgery, the patient should not drink alcohol, limit fluid intake if possible. If the health condition requires correction with medications, the doctor should be warned about this, since taking acetylsalicylic acid, antiplatelet agents can provoke an allergic reaction when the filler is injected.

What happens after the procedure?

During the first three days after contour plastic surgery of the nose, a slight burning sensation may be felt in the area of the injection of the drug, and slight swelling may also be observed. But these transient symptoms are neutralized very quickly, in contrast to the excellent result - a more perfect shape of the nose.

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