By Apart from Korean cosmetic products being popular and recognized globally, Korea is also famous for its plastic surgery techniques and innovations. The top most performed plastic surgery in Korea is eyelid surgery, followed by nose surgery, also commonly known as a “nose job”. Here’s the most popular 5 nose surgery in Korea.
Top 5 most popular nose surgery in Korea
1. Flat nose surgery
The most common characteristics of an Asian face is to have a flat, low nasal bridge and a low nose tip. Flat nose surgery involves the reshaping of flat noses by elevating the height of your nose bridge and making your nose tip more projected. The procedure is popular among those with low nose bridges and flat nose tips.
That said, flat nose surgery is not just about having a tall nose but rather, raising your nose bridge height and defining your nose tip to create a nose that suits your face and enhances your existing features.
2. Short nose surgery
A short nose is a nose that is short in length and tend to expose your nostrils. It is also commonly described as “piggy nose”. This is often caused by birth trauma or side effects from a previous nose surgery.
There are three techniques used for short nose surgery to correct a short nose:
- Lengthen nose tip
- Adjust angle of septal cartilage
- Columella lengthening
But depending on how “short” your nose is, it could be necessary to combine all 3 techniques as well. Especially for Asian noses, lengthening your columella is one of the must-do techniques.
3. Tipplasty
Some people may have a bulbous nose – a fat nose with a flat nasal tip, or just a fat nasal tip. Tipplasty is a specific type of rhinoplasty procedure that aims to enhance your nose tip. This procedure creates or adjusts the elevation of your nose tip by raising your tip to a proportionate angle between your nose and lips, making it pointier.
There are two ways to get a higher and pointier nose tip:
- Cartilage reshaping and removal
- Autologous cartilage implant
4. Alarplasty
Alarplasty aims to reduce the overall size of your nostrils by removing excess alar skin and adjusting the shape of your nostrils. In short, it is a nostril reduction. This procedure is popular among those who have overly wide nostrils and thick alar skin.
There are 2 types of alarplasty methods:
- Incisional alar reduction
- Non-incisional alar reduction
And depending on the thickness of your alar skin as well as how far apart your nostrils are, your plastic surgeon will decide on the appropriate surgical method to be used. And because alarplasty is irreversible, do make sure that you really want and need this procedure before diving head on.
5. Wide nose surgery
Wide nose surgery, aka lateral osteotomy, aims to slim down a wide nose bridge. It involves breaking the bone structure at the top of the nose into smaller pieces and moving it closer together to narrow down the nose bridge.
If your nose bridge is not too flat, it will even appear to be higher after undergoing this procedure. That said however, be careful not to overdo it because an overly thin nose bridge can result in breathing difficulties.
More often than never, patients with wide nose bridges also have a flat and broad nasal tip (nostrils). In such cases, tipplasty or alarplasty is performed together to achieve an overall appearance of a slimmer and defined nose.
Conclusion
The fact that nose surgeries are so popular and common in Korea is already the best reason for you to have your nose surgery done in Korea. Especially when you are of Asian descent, there is no doubt that the Korean plastic surgeons are your best bet.
In addition, Korean plastic surgeons have such advanced surgical techniques and with that many years of experience, where else to get your nose surgeries done but in Korea?
What do you think?