Rhinoplasty For All The Right Reasons

Rhinoplasty is a cosmetic procedure to alter the shape or size of your nose for cosmetic reasons or to correct breathing problems or defects. The changes from this procedure don't have to be great to effect a change on your whole face and sometimes those changes are so slight only you are even aware of them but that's okay.

Your nose is not as simple as it looks. Your nose can mark your ethnic background in ways no other part of your body can. The hands of someone with Hispanic heritage for example aren't any different from the hands of someone with Jewish heritage. But the nose knows. The nose of a person with Asian ancestry is different from the nose of someone with African American or Mediation heritage. To change your nose is to change a lot about who you are. Maybe you appreciate that bump on your nose that everyone in your family has and makes you remember your heritage or maybe you just see a nose that you hate and would do anything to get it changed.

Look at actress Jennifer Grey who with her imperfect nose rose to fame in Dirty Dancing playing the part of a naïve girl who learns to be sexy through dancing. Her nose did not get in the way despite being slightly imperfect. It stood out on her face- it was likely what made her look like a real person and not a cookie cutter model slash actress.

But Jennifer Grey altered her nose with rhinoplasty and it changed her face and who she looked like. The ethnic telling signs of who she was and where she came from were demolished ad she became a person who looked like Jennifer Grey but only slightly. Before you make the decision to alter your nose make sure the small alterations or the big alterations will give you a nose that still makes you look like who you are and not just someone who looks like you.

Love it or hate it your nose is right in the center of it all so you should be careful in your consideration to alter it.
Of course for some people the decision to come to rhinoplasty has less to do with altering an ethic nose than it does with correcting a defect from birth or an accident. Birth defects such as a cleft palate or any congenital nasal abnormalities require rhinoplasty to assist with more than just looking better- it also improves the health and quality of life for patients.

Rhinoplasty can do a lot with something that looks as simple as it sits on your face seemingly doing nothing but holding up your glasses and telling when the cookies are burnt. But as simple as the nose may look it is clearly one of the more complex parts of our lives and faces and altering it should only be undertaken with the greatest of care and thought.