Beverly Hills Nasal and Facial Cosmetic Surgeon
Beverly Hills Nasal and Facial Cosmetic Surgeon -
If you have not already heard, the E! Channel’s Botched has been declared a huge hit and is being renewed for yet another TV season, featuring unhappy cosmetic plastic surgery patients, all of whom want a botched plastic surgery redone.
Medically, such surgeries are known as revision surgeries, with the leading re-do being revision rhinoplasty, a much harder procedure due to scar tissue inside the nose. That surgery requires a Master Surgeon because the landscape and familiar landmarks inside the nose have been so altered by the previous surgery.
(Learn more about revision rhinoplasty.)
You can imagine what all that does to the cost of plastic surgery. So it’s more important than ever to make sure a first rhinoplasty is done correctly the first time.
But are there other options for a botched nose job?
That’s a qualified yes, because if the needed repair and changes are on the outside of the nose, there is a very attractive option.
Most revision rhinoplasty patients are pleased when they find the cost of non-surgical rhinoplasty is 80 percent less than a surgical fix. Costs are lower because the cosmetic plastic surgeon does the procedure in the office during short 10-minute appointments. Usually three to five visits are needed.
Nasal conditions that can be repaired via a non-surgical nose job include:
- Grooves
- Divots or shallow places
- Humps or bumps on the bridge
- Bends or twists
- Asymmetrical nostrils
- Flat tip
Say a previous surgeon left a divot or hollowed place on the nose. In a non-surgical nose job, the cosmetic surgeon places micro-droplets of a permanent filler, Silikon 1000, in the divot or hollow place and then waits five to six weeks.
(Learn more about the non-surgical nose job.)
What happens under the skin is a plumping action. Your immune system sees that miniscule drop of filler as a foreign invader and walls it off with the body’s own natural tissues.
At the next appointment, a few more drops may be added as needed until the divot is filled and the nose looks natural.
There is even a preview feature to the non-surgical nose job. Known as the Kotler Saltwater Demonstration, the cosmetic surgeon uses plain but sterilized saline as a filler for nasal depressions and marks.
(Learn more about the Saltwater Demo.)
The salt water dissipates in several hours but that’s long enough to take some before and after pictures of the nose with, and without, correction.
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The patient below has had saline injected into her nose to show how her nose would look when a permanent filler is used. (Photo, Robert Kotler, M.D.)
