Ever notice how famous people seem to have beautiful faces and that those faces are perfectly symmetrical? It should not surprise you that the scientific evidence behind what most humans consider beautiful verifies that the perfectly symmetrical face is the ultimate in beauty. That is why so many celebrities are considered beautiful or handsome and have the jobs they do.
Sure, there are exceptions to the rule. Not everyone is actually beautiful if they have a symmetrical face and not everyone with slightly flawed noses or eyes is ugly. There are certainly enough actors and actresses that demonstrate this fact too.
Still, if you are considered by most of your friends and family and close acquaintances to be attractive but not “beautiful” or “handsome”, the middle of your face may be responsible. The middle of your face is where most people look when they speak to you, and they subconsciously look for symmetry. If you have noticed that your nose isn’t exactly symmetrical, your reception by others may be all the evidence you need that your nose is at fault. Improving facial balance through rhinoplasty can help.
From Slightly Slanted to Very Sideways
As fetuses in the womb, humans are compressed into tiny spaces. Soft tissues like the pre-cartilage of the nose and ears are often pushed, compressed, moved to the side, or flattened in order to fit in the womb. When you are born, your face and head are supposed to present to the world first and are often squashed and moved to either side first in the process. Things may readjust and return to a more neutral position, or they may remain askew.
For some people, a slight slant to the right or left side of the face can detract from their “perfect” facial appearance to others. Fixing this slight slant is one of the easiest rhinoplasty surgeries. It just requires moving the cartilage and reshaping it just enough to make your nose look perfectly straight and perfectly symmetrical.
Of course, there are others whose noses weren’t so fortunate during birth and their noses stayed very askew most of their lives. As they grew, the imbalances in their facial appearance became more dominant, revealing an almost Picasso-like look to their features. In these cases, The Rhinoplasty Center and your doctor would have to physically break the nose during a surgical procedure and reset it to heal in a very straight position. The cartilage on the end of your nose may also need reshaping to suit the straight up and down the appearance of your new nose.
Just a Cartilage Thing
Maybe you have a perfectly straight nose already, but the shape and size of the cartilage is what throws everyone for a loop. Overly large or overly small noses can throw your face off-balance visually. Reducing the cartilage to a size that looks more fitting to your head shape, head size and facial features give you back that balance. Likewise, making the cartilage larger with nasal implants can restore a sense of balance to facial features that are larger than the nose before surgery.
In this case, balance is restored by correcting the cartilage that makes up the very end of your nose. Different approaches are used based on whether you and your doctor want to make your nose appear bigger or smaller to match the rest of your face. Because the procedure is less invasive than a full rhinoplasty, you will see changes and results in a lot sooner after surgery and you will heal faster too.
The Proof Is in the Photos and X-rays
If there is any question in the success of your rhinoplasty surgery, before and after photos are taken of your nose. X-rays may be taken as well if your nose is to be broken in order to straighten it. Then the pictures of the corrected and fully healed nose are placed side by side with the original nose pictures for a comparison. X-rays before and x-rays after being laid on top of each other to see the amazing changes in the position of your nasal bones and how much straighter your nose is after the surgery.
In this way, you can see the changes for yourself. You may find it difficult to see the differences because you have been looking at yourself in a mirror every morning most of your life. However, how others react to your new nose, react to you on the whole, and how your before and after photos and x-rays look helps you see the changes more clearly.
Straight on and Side Photos Are Telling
People with obvious crookedness in their noses will notice the most dramatic changes in their photos from one side of the face and straight on headshots. Those with less dramatic skews in their noses should still see the changes, although the changes will be much more subtle. If you took a lot of selfies before surgery, take some of those same selfies all over again and compare the finished results for yourself against your older selfie photos.
The Most Important Thing Is That You Think and Feel Beautiful
No matter how dramatic the changes, the important thing about any cosmetic surgery is that you feel beautiful and you think you look beautiful when the surgery is complete. Giving greater symmetry and balance to your face has this effect on many patients. If you love what you see in the mirror every morning from now on, the surgery was a definite success and it achieved the right balance in your features. That’s all the doctors at The Rhinoplasty Center hope for and desire to accomplish for any of their many patients.