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Rhinoplasty: A Buyer's Guide

The most commonly regretted and most commonly transformative facial surgery. Candidacy, surgeon vetting, revision math, and the questions that expose weak operators.

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Rhinoplasty has the widest outcome variance of any facial procedure: the same operation name covers career-best artistry and irreversible damage. Revision rates run 5–15% across the field, and revisions are harder, costlier, and less predictable than primaries. Your job is to make your primary your last.

Candidacy: what noses actually improve

Strong candidates have a specific, describable concern the surgeon can point to on imaging: dorsal hump, bulbous tip, deviated axis, over-projection. Weak candidates want 'a better nose' — undefined goals produce the over-resected, scooped results that defined 90s rhinoplasty and today's revision wards.

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