Why choose medical rhinoplasty?

Nose injections: non-invasive nose reshaping

Whether using hyaluronic acid or, more rarely, botulinum toxin injections, the main advantage of medical rhinoplasty is that it’s a minimally invasive technique, requiring no hospitalisation, no bandages, no scalpel, and a rapid result.

No need for a scalpel

In a medical rhinoplasty, the scalpel is replaced by a simple needle a few millimetres long, with which the practitioner targets the muscle (Botox injection) or the deep dermis (filler injection).
It is a safe procedure, with a very limited risk of tissue damage, no scarring problems, a very limited risk of post-operative embolism and no hospitalisation.
This medical procedure remains possible for many patients for whom surgery is contraindicated.

It’s painless

There is no need for a general anaesthetic, which is always a legitimate cause for apprehension.
The most sensitive areas, such as the columella, can even be given additional anaesthesia with an anaesthetic cream, so that you do not even feel the sting.

No need for further surgery

While nose surgery requires follow-up with dressings and social and professional downtime, injections require no follow-up.
In rare cases, very slight bruising or swelling may appear, but these resolve within a few days.
There is therefore no social downtime.
It should also be remembered that the sick leave required for nose surgery is never covered by the CNAM (French national health insurance) in the case of cosmetic rhinoplasty.

It’s fast

Choosing medical rhinoplasty saves a great deal of time.
The procedure lasts around 15 minutes, and you go home immediately afterwards.
Hyaluronic acid injections produce an immediate volumising effect, which stabilises perfectly after 2 weeks. You need to be a little more patient with Botox, which takes 4 to 10 days to take effect.
Rhinoplasty surgery, by contrast, gives an acceptable result after 1 to 2 months, and a definitive result after a year.

It can be corrected

The great fear with nose surgery is failure.
This fear does not arise with medical rhinoplasty, for at least two reasons:

• Injectable products are resorbable (a few months for Botox, about two years for hyaluronic acid), so their effect eventually disappears.
• If required, hyaluronic acid can be dissolved with a natural enzyme, hyaluronidase.

That is why medical rhinoplasty offers great peace of mind, and why it is often proposed as a secondary rhinoplasty to correct the imperfections of botched nose surgery.

Medical rhinoplasty: a sought-after result

Reshaping the nose with hyaluronic acid injections can sculpt the contours, correct imperfections such as a bump, balance an asymmetry or even lift the tip of the nose with a specific technique.

It is important to choose an experienced practitioner, with a subtle eye and a full analysis of volumes.
Two things add real peace of mind for the patient:

• The possibility of safely destroying the hyaluronic acid if the result is unsatisfactory;
• The possibility of carrying out this reshaping in two stages, 15 days apart.

Retouching is then used to perfect the result and to meet the expectations of the patient, who sees their nose “take shape” in the truest sense of the word.

The nose also has limited movement, so cross-linked hyaluronic acid is resorbed much more slowly there than on other parts of the face, ensuring a beautiful result for 2 to 3 years in most cases.

Nose job without surgery: preserving your identity

Saying that something is as plain as the nose on your face means that nose surgery will profoundly and permanently alter the appearance of the person who undergoes it.
While this is often the desired goal, three consequences should be borne in mind:

• Nose surgery will prompt questions from those around you and from your family, and these can quickly become burdensome;
• Imperfect surgery will draw the gaze, increasing the complexes or dysmorphophobia at the root of the operation;
• Surgery that is too extensive can profoundly alter a person’s identity, with the risk that patients reject their own image, aggravating psychological problems.

All these risks are avoided with non-surgical nose reshaping, because the changes are more discreet and do not betray the identity of the face.
It is a carried out with limited risks, discussed in consultation, painless way of enhancing the nose with a perfectly natural result, which explains the growing success of medical rhinoplasty using hyaluronic acid injections.