Rhinoplasty (Nose Reshaping/ Nose Job Surgery)

The nose is positioned centrally in the face and gives a distinct identity to the individual. After the eyes, it is the most noticed facial feature. Any defects or deviations are immediately noticed. The golden ratio involved in the structure of the nose varies substantially with every racial subtype according to how the face is structured. For example, the Indian nose is distinctly different from other Asian noses. When the structure of a nose deviates from this, it alters the way the entire face is seen by others. This deviation could be congenital or due to some trauma or infectious causes. This not only compromises the function of the nose, but also leads to low self esteem and in some cases depression. The good news is that this can be surgically corrected.

Skill sets of a nose correction specialist

A competent nose correction (rhinoplasty) specialist should have good surgical skills, manual dexterity, and an eye for proportion and beauty, all of which rests on a good understanding of the structure of the nose, its cultural value, and its connection to the rest of the face. Only such a surgeon can bring about the best results. Even if one of these details is overlooked, the patient’s expectations and reality would be mismatched, leading to a compromised outcome. The average Indian nose is typically broad, smaller in size, and often lacks projection when compared to Western noses. It also has a wider base with rounded nostrils and nasal tip. All these factors have to be kept in mind when planning a nose correction surgery. A typical Western nose would not be usually suited for an Indian face, thus making such a correction unwise. Such a surgery would involve volume correction of the nose.

Dr. S.M Balaji

Dr. S. M. Balaji is an accomplished nose correction surgeon from Chennai, India, with more than 27 years of surgical experience who has over 10,000 successful nose correction surgeries to his credit. The surgeries performed by him range from the very simple ones such as nose hump reduction to the very difficult, which involve completely rebuilding the nose from near total absence of nasal bone and flesh, such as in cases of complex cleft lip and palate repair.

Surgery Types

Nose correction surgery can be broadly divided under the kind of nasal deformity that has been identified and needs to be corrected. Nasal deformities can be minor or major. Correction of nasal deformities, besides having a direct impact on the function of breathing, would also result in cosmetic correction of the nose. Therefore, nasal reconstructive surgery serves a dual purpose.

Cost of Rhinoplasty (Nose Reshaping/ Nose Job) Surgery

Cosmetic surgeries were once very costly affairs and were viewed as being only for the wealthy, affordable to only movie stars and celebrities. It has nowadays become affordable even to the common man. Cosmetic surgery for the nose always has an underlying element of deformity correction to it. Research has demonstrated that over 90% of the population has minor deformities of the nasal structures, both on the inside and the outside. Correction of these deformities would directly result in improved breathing and better quality of sleep for the individual.

Many people from abroad including the developed western countries have started coming to India for nose correction surgeries as the cost of healthcare in India is relatively cheap compared to other nations. The shape and size of the nose should be perfectly matched with the face in order to obtain the best possible results. The noses of many Hollywood and Bollywood stars are the result of such a specialist’s work. It is done so well that nobody would even notice that a correction surgery has been performed on the nose.

A few Rhinoplasty procedures that are routinely performed are listed below:

The reasons for undergoing a rhinoplasty can best be described as diverse and personal to each patient. A sculptor’s eye is a prerequisite for a good nose surgery specialist. The proportions of the nose should be perfectly synchronized with the proportions of the face in order to obtain the best possible results. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the best rhinoplasty surgeons are the artist’s of the medical world. The noses of many Hollywood and Bollywood stars are the results of a nose correction specialist’s work, which has been done to such perfection that nobody would even notice that a correction surgery has been performed on the nose.

Surgery Types

Nose surgeries can range from simple to very difficult. They can be performed solely for improving the looks or for actual defects in the nose. They help cure problems like difficulty with breathing or excessive snoring caused by defects in the nose.

best example for a purely cosmetic nose surgery would be correction of parrot beak deformity. The individual undergoing surgery would basically have no functional difficulties due to the deformity. Functional nose repair would include reconstruction of deformities of the nose that would lead directly to improvement in the health of the individual undergoing the procedure.

A few of the cosmetic procedures routinely performed by Dr. S. M. Balaji, Nose Correction Specialist, are listed below:

• CRANIOFACIAL DEFORMITY
• FACIAL ASYMMETRY
• HEMIFACIAL MICROSOMIA
• JAW DEFORMITY CORRECTION
• EAR RECONSTRUCTION
• NOSE RECONSTRUCTION
• BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN
• RHINOPLASTY | NOSE CORRECTION
• SALIVARY GLAND - SURGERY