Female Rhinoplasty | NYC Rhinoplasty Surgeon, Dr. Sam Rizk

Dr. Sam Rizk has been chosen as a Top Facial Plastic Surgeon and Rhinoplasty Specialist by Castle Connolly, the #1 Organization which selects Top Physicians in every field based on recommendations by their peers. Dr. Rizk has also published his original techniques in many plastic surgery journals, which requires peer review by other plastic surgeons to deem it original and worthy of publication. Dr. Rizk is often selected by doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals to do their plastic surgery.

PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT:

Dr. Rizk's philosophy is a natural, balanced rhinoplasty in harmony with the rest of the facial features. This may sometimes mean a dramatically smaller nose if you are starting with a disproportionately large nose, or it may be a very subtle result. Some of Dr. Rizk's results are dramatic, others more subtle. Dr. Rizk also usually repairs the septum and shrinks the turbinates if they are blocking patient's breathing preoperatively. Patients usually breathe better after the procedure and if you look at most of his revision cases on the main website and blog, he actually builds collapsed and pinched areas to improve breathing with grafts. Additionally, he uses cartilage- conserving and grafting to achieve smaller and more proportionate noses in primary and revision rhinoplasty, which actually makes the nose structurally stronger over a person's lifetime. HE REMOVES very LITTLE cartilage, even in very bulbous tips, to achieve this definition. Additionally, his 3-D endoscopic techniques, is not just used to decrease swelling and bruising postoperatively. It also achieves a more precise long-term result. Furthermore, by decreasing swelling, you also decrease scar tissue formation, which improves overall long-term results.

Dr. Rizk's rhinoplasty approach emphasizes a strong nasal framework and structure to ensure LONGEVITY of an excellent FUNCTIONAL and COSMETIC outcome. Vital to the above philosophy is the use of grafts to support a structurally weak nose or a nose which becomes weak after a reduction. Dr. Rizk prefers to use the patient's own cartilage for grafting, whether from the septum, ears, or costal cartilage rather than foreign implants. Occasionally, if no cartilage is available for grafting, Dr. Rizk will use a synthetic implant. Dr. Rizk spends a great deal of time sculpting these grafts with a special instrument he pioneered to give the most natural and soft result. These supportive cartilage grafts prevent scar contracture over the nose's lifetime and diminishes the need for revision rhinoplasty.

Rhinoplasty Before & After Photos

July 5th, 2010


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48 yo female complains of long nose, bump, and bulbous asymmetric nasal tip. Patient underwent endonasal rhinoplasty 3d to remove bump, lift tip and add a plumping graft at base of columella (columella-lip-angle) to support the nasolabial angle and make it less acute. As we age the tip drops more and the nasolabial angle becomes more acute. An important technique is the plumping graft using the patient’s own cartilage to achieve this.

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25yo female with a severe rhinoplasty deformity from a previous rhinoplasty with both a floating bone open roof problem as well as tip bulbosity. Patient actually has attachment of bone into thin skin in dorsum. Patient is shown 5 months after revision rhinoplasty.


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22year old Hispanic female shown 3 months after rhinoplasty with alar base reduction. Notice the nasal bump has been removed and the tip lifted and refined and nostrils reduced. This is an example of an ethnic rhinoplasty with thick skin. The skin was defatted and sculpted internally in 3d. Additionally, the patient’s own septum cartilage was used to build and define her tip.


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45 yo female who would like a refreshed look underwent facelift/necklift, upper and lower blepharoplasty and a subtle rhinoplasty-endonasal (incisions inside nose only). Patient is shown 2 weeks post-surgery and is still swollen but a noticeable improvement can be seen.


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22 year old female who underwent endonasal 3D rhinoplasty to lift her tip, remove her bump and narrow the tip. Patient is shown postoperatively. Note that patient has a history of using a nose ring on the left side and has a slight indentation asymmetry from the nose ring.


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25 year old Indian female with crooked and drooping nasal tip as well as severe deviated nasal septum. Patient underwent rhinoplasty and septoplasty with multiple cartilage grafts to define her tip as well as spreader and camouflage grafts to straighten her nose. Her tip was also lifted to achieve a more aesthetically pleasing profile.


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25 year old female complains about her tip as too boxy. Patient has separation of her lower tip cartilages and a saddle above her tip. This was corrected with cartilage grafts obtained from patient’s septum and suture techniques were used to make tip cartilages narrower.


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18 yo female who did not like width of her bridge and tip from front. From the profile she did not like her underprojected, drooping tip and bump. Patient is shown 3 months after endonasal rhinoplasty.


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42 year old female who sustained a nasal trauma and fracture to her nose who underwent rhinoplasty endonasal (no external incisions) who is shown 6 years after rhinoplasty.


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25 year old female who underwent rhinoplasty 8 years ago and was very dissatisfied with her nose. Her preoperative pictures shows the typical stigma associated with an overreduced rhinoplasty. Preoperative pictures shows the following deformities from the profile: Scooped out saddled cartilage bridge and a bony bump, overprojected tip with a hanging columella, pointy tip on the right. Preoperative picture from the front view shows the following deformities: open roof deformity near the bony top part of nose, inverted v deformity in the cartilage part of nose, pointy tip on right, and hanging columella. Postoperative pictures are shown after rhinoplasty with the use of septal cartilage graft. Additionally, patient could not breathe preoperatively secondary to a deviated septum and could breathe after that was fixed at the same time.


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46 year old female shown 1 year after rhinoplasty and neck liposuction. Rhinoplasty was endosnasal (from inside nose only) to lift tip and refine her tip in a subtle way and deproject her nose (bring it closer to face). Patient also underwent neck liposuction. At 1 year post-surgery, patient has fully healed and all the swelling has resolved.


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22 yo female from Dominican Republic who would like more refinement in her tip and nasal bridge. Patient has thick skin and is shown after 3D rhinoplasty with smooth tip grafts and nostril reduction. Notice also improvement in profile (more feminine).


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34 year old female with very THICK SKIN AND BULBOUS NOSE underwent open rhinoplasty with multiple tip and dorsal cartilage grafts and defatting of thick skin in 3D. Patient is shown 6 months after rhinoplasty with a more defined nose. Thick skin in rhinoplasty requires specialized techniques to achieve definition. Only front pictures are shown since there was very little change from the profile view.


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25 year old female who wants a more attractive nose. Patient underwent rhinoplasty consisting of shortening nose and also tip work to refine the tip. Patient is shown 6 months after rhinoplasty.


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27 year old Hispanic female who had rhinoplasty to define nasal tip and remove her hump shown 5 years after endonasal (closed) rhinoplasty. Patient had an endonasal graft placement to define and support her nasal tip as well as defatting the thick tip skin.


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56 year old female who underwent facelift/necklift/partial browlift/blepharoplasty and rhinoplasty.


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25 year old female underwent endonasal rhinoplasty to narrow tip and remove nasal bump as well as rotate nose.


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48 year old female with previous history of rhinoplasty unhappy with her front view irregularities and areas of collapse (worse on right side) and inability to breathe. Patient shown after revision rhinoplasty using septal and auricular cartilage grafts to correct multiple areas of deformities and collapses. Both spreader and alar batton grafts were needed as well as dorsal onlay grafts. Graft edges were smoothed using Dr. Rizk’s new graft sculpting technology. Only front pictures are shown as there was mainly front changes only.


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26 year old female complains of nasal bump and lack of tip definition. Patient also had breathing difficulty. Patient is shown after septorhinoplasty with cap graft and columellar strut graft for nasal tip as well as bilateral spreaders as patient had a pinched mid-nasal vault. Bump was removed and tip was defined. Columella was hanging and was lifted as well.


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27 year old Asian female who had a previous rhinoplasty with silicone implant which became infected and extruded through her tip and also became crooked. Patient underwent revision rhinoplasty with Dr. Rizk to remove silicone implant and Dr. Rizk used cartilage from inside her nose to lengthen her nose and define her tip.


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29 year old Asian female who wanted a more refined nasal tip and to remove her bump. The rhinoplasty was done using endonasal techniques in 3D with no external incision. Cartilage was harvested from patient’s septum to create tip definition.

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22 yo Middle Eastern female interested in rhinoplasty. Patient underwent 3D endonasal rhinoplasty and is shown after surgery. Patient also had repairs to the deviation of the nose to the left at the same time and refinement of her nasal bridge and tip. Dr. Rizk likes this type of high bridge on this patient because it matches her face, cheeks and chin very well.


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35 yo female South American/Latino patient who underwent revision rhinoplasty to straighten the nose as well as remove the bump (actually we call this a pollybeak because it is mostly cartilage). The bony bump was overresected and the cartilage bump was underresected. Patient is shown at 1.5 years postoperatively.