Ethnic Rhinoplasty: Preserving Natural Beauty

People who come from the same ethnic background tend to share the same facial structures. Ethnic rhinoplasty is an approach in rhinoplasty that concerns maintaining the ethnic characteristics of a patient’s nose. This approach aims to cater to the improvement needs of people with ethnic backgrounds, while still preserving the characteristic look of their ethnicity.

The most popular examples of ethnic rhinoplasty is the African-American rhinoplasty and the Asian rhinoplasty. The typical African-American nose is often flat and wide with a depressed tip and flared nostrils. And the Asian nose is typically round and bulb-like at the tip. Caucasian rhinoplasty and these two types of rhinoplasty have almost nothing in common, except that they are all nose surgeries.

Caucasian rhinoplasty basically involves the removal of the characteristic bump on the bridge of the nose, or the bulbous tip. An African-American rhinoplasty would require some reduction on the nostrils and raising of the tip of the nose through the reinforcement of the cartilage. The Asian rhinoplasty typically concerns raising the tip or the bridge of the nose, and improving it without making it too pointy.

While Caucasian rhinoplasty seldom makes use of extracted cartilage or nose prostheses, African-American and Asian rhinoplasty require the use of these in order to raise the tip or bridge in improving facial features. In Los Angeles rhinoplasty, some surgeons specialize in ethnic rhinoplasty in order to master its differences from common Caucasian rhinoplasty practices.

In Los Angeles rhinoplasty, ethnic rhinoplasty specialists focus on improving the nose while still maintaining its original structure. Otherwise, they could create a nose that does not fit in with the rest of the face. Ethnic rhinoplasty concerns more complicated procedures such as harvesting cartilage from the ear or other parts of the body to use to extend or raise the nose’s tip or bridge, as well as the complicated reduction of the nostril flare.

Also, as Asian and African-American skin is thicker, the wounds tend to heal longer and the scars tend to be more visible. Because of this, Los Angeles rhinoplasty specialists, and some specialists in other areas, more carefully and meticulously perform ethnic rhinoplasty procedures.