Patient education
Wide Nose: Causes and Options
Everything here is written to be used in a decision rather than studied for its own sake. If you read only one, read the first, because a bony vault and an alar base are separate widths, they are assessed at different levels, and they are not answered by the same operation.
All guides
10 guides
- Wide Nose: The Two Widths That Are Assessed SeparatelyAssessment
- Wide Nose: Judged Against Your Face, Not a NormProportion
- Alar Base Width: What Actually Sets the Nostril SpanAnatomy
- Bony Vault Width: When the Bridge Is the Wider PartAnatomy
- Non-Surgical Options for a Wide Nose: Honest LimitsAlternatives
- Changing the Alar Base Surgically: What It Can and Cannot DoSurgery
- Tip Definition and Apparent WidthProportion
- Breathing and the Wide Nose: Function Before ContourAssessment
- Alar Base Surgery: Scars, Recovery and Honest Trade-OffsRisks
- Wide Nose: When the Right Answer Is to Leave It AloneDeciding
Find out which part of your nose is actually the wide one
Arrange an assessment. We will measure the bony vault and the alar base separately, examine your airway, and tell you plainly whether treatment is worth it, what it would cost you in recovery and risk, and why the answer may be to leave the nose alone.