WHAT IS THE PERFECT NOSE?
A lot has been written about the aesthetics of the tip of the nose and the relative proportions and proper distances. As a patient, it is probably best not to get bogged down in the discussion of these proportions with your doctor and to reach some general agreement on what your nose needs. There are also gradations of surgical procedures that require more or less surgery to the tip. Less surgery is often better. In plastic surgery, our general rule also for patients to keep in mind, as much as they fight it, is that “perfect is the enemy of good”. If the nose has small problems, little areas of crookedness or the tip is not particularly small, these defects may keep it looking natural and might be better off left alone.Many times when a patient will come up to me thinking they have a perfect nose, I am often delighted to find that there are many imperfections that the patient does not notice. NOSE COMPLICATIONS • UNSATISFACTORY APPEARANCE Routinely, we wait six months to one year to m
