Rhinoplasty in India For Nose Reconstruction

The nose is the most eye-catching feature of the face. It can help others perceive the gender identity of the individual. In contrast to the female nose, the masculine nose is bigger in all aspects (including broader nasal bone) and most often has a nasal hump. There is a strongly pronounced angle between the male forehead and the nose and a less noticeable angle between their nose and lip. Females have a more vertical angle between the forehead and nose and a more accentuated angle between nose and lip. Their nose tends to be straight and narrow or have a slide-like curvature and usually smaller nostrils. 

Some people are assigned female gender at birth but have some male facial characteristics that lead to embarrassment. Facial feminization surgery in India is performed at Designer Bodyz by the best FFS surgeon in Mumbai, Dr. Parag Telang. It involves a set of surgical procedures whose objective is to achieve a subtle feminine face by adjusting masculine facial features. It allows transsexual women or individuals suffering from gender dysphoria to live entirely in the female role with confidence.  

One of the surgeries that most commonly belong to the facial gender affirmation is rhinoplasty. Many transwomen have a belief that refining nose features can lead to marked up-gradation in their female facial appearance. The goal of rhinoplasty (also termed as Nose Job) in transwomen patients is to redefine and soften the nose features to make them look more feminine. It is inclined to make eyes look larger, highlight the cheekbones, and create an overall elegant facial impression.  

How to feminize the nose?

Nose feminization is possible by standard procedures of rhinoplasty in India performed at Designer Bodyz. This technique is used to reduce the nose size or reshape it to provide a clear outline and proportions as of female. For receiving the most natural results, the nose must be in harmony with the entire face. The rhinoplasty facial feminization surgery focuses on making smaller the nasal dorsum and tip as well as having a lifted nose tip. It is done to correct the frontal bossing i.e. improve the angle between the forehead and nose. The result may vary depending upon the thickness of the nose skin. A significant reduction can be noticed in people having thin skin while improved nose contours are possible in the case of those with thick skin. Thus changing the nose contours alone can help in the feminization of the basic nose appearance.   

What does the procedure of rhinoplasty facial feminization surgery entail?

The rhinoplasty surgery for nose feminization in India is usually performed under general anesthesia by the famous FFS Surgeon Dr. Parag Telang. But in some cases, local sedation or local anesthesia may be given. The nose job typically gets over between one to two hours. Different actions can be executed during the surgery which depends upon the needs of the patients that are discussed further.  

The steps involved in the procedure are as follows:

    • Making of incisions: The preferred approach is the ‘open method’ wherein a small cut is made at the external of the nose across the skin between the nostrils (i.e. the columella). This provides the plastic surgeon with a more operational space. It results in a scar that resolves within a few months.

    • Providing support to the nose tip: This is done by suturing the columella with a cartilage ‘strut’ that is usually taken from the ear or nasal septum. 

    • Refining of nose tip: The nose tip is narrowed down using sutures.

    • Reshaping of the nose: The nasal hump made of bony cartilage is precisely removed and the skin is made smooth. This is done with the help of a rasp or surgical file. 

    • Reconstruction rhinoplasty: For a nose that lacks cartilage, the well-defined structure of the nose tip and the vault or wings is provided by the cartilage removed from the ear or septum. The removed cartilage is reshaped according to the patient’s nose anatomy and sutured back into that part of the nose that requires support. For adding a larger volume to the nose to augment the dorsum, the best option is the use of a role of Mersilene mesh.  

    • Narrowing of the nose: The wide nasal bridge is narrowed by cracking the nasal bone at both ends and shifting them closer to the center.

    • Nasal base narrowing: The width of nostrils can be reduced by making an alar base excision.

    • Closing incisions: This is done by using non-absorbable small sutures that are removed after 7-8 days of surgery.

Result and Recovery: 

After rhinoplasty, most people get bruising around the eyes and cheeks, difficulty breathing, and some may have sporadic bleeding for the first couple of weeks. The nose appearance will be normalized very soon but appreciated results are noticeable after six months. During healing, the nose skin must not crust. People can remove it easily by softening it with Vaseline or by following the steps guided by their surgeon.   

To know more about Rhinoplasty Cost in India, consult Dr. Parag Telang at Designer Bodyz, Best Plastic Surgery Clinic in Mumbai.