Non-Surgical Rhinoplasty: Liquid Rhinoplasty
Liquid rhinoplasty is a perfect method to eliminate defects like nasal humps, drooping nose, and asymmetry. In this method, the doctor will fix deformities by injecting a filler.
These fillers are usually made of hyaluronic acid which is the same substance used as fillers in the lips and cheeks. Most of these fillers last 9 to 12 months.
According to the Healthline website fillers can fix problems in your nose that plastic surgery cannot alleviate. Juvederm and Restylane are two of the best filler brands.
There is another class of fillers called collagen-stimulating fillers. As their name suggests these fillers stimulate local collagen production by the body.
Collagen-stimulating fillers are less effective for size increase in comparison to hyaluronic acid but last up to 2 years.
Liquid Rhinoplasty Popularity
According to the statistics provided by the ASPS, in 2017 Rhinoplasty by surgery was the third-leading plastic surgery in the USA, with 21000 surgeries that year which is a 2% reduction compared to 2016.
You might be wondering why did the reduction in rhinoplasty surgery occur? What replaced it?
One of the reasons behind this reduction is a non-surgical method called liquid rhinoplasty. This is because more people are looking for less invasive methods.
According to the data we achieved from the Google Trends, you can see the sensible increasing trends of patients that were looking for liquid rhinoplasty in the google search engine over the last few years.
Liquid Rhinoplasty Advantages
- The first and most important advantage of this method in comparison to surgical methods is that it takes only 15 minutes for the doctor to inject the filler and make changes. However, even the smallest of changes take 1 to 4 hours.
- In this method you can remain conscious, some doctors even will let you watch the procedure with a mirror.
- The results are instantly visible in this method.
- Another advantage is the short recovery time of liquid rhinoplasty, you can immediately go home afterward and resume a normal life.
- In the case of using hyaluronic acid as a filler, you can restore your nose before the procedure if the results are not what you like by using hyaluronidase that breaks down the filler.
- The cost of liquid rhinoplasty is much lower than rhinoplasty, and not even comparable.
Liquid Rhinoplasty Disadvantages
According to PubMed, in 2019 150 people that had done liquid rhinoplasty, only 1.82% had side effects and the rest were perfectly happy about the results. therefore, liquid rhinoplasty is not without flaws and has side effects. In the following, we will go over some of them.
- The temporary nature of this procedure is the main issue and must be reapplied periodically.
- Redness and swelling in the injection site are other flaws that go away in a day or two.
- Bruising can also occur in and around the injection sites.
- Relocation of the filler is another issue, this happens when the filler moves to another location of the nose or under the eyes, this will cause swelling that can be bumpy around the nose and eyes.
- According to NCBI, in 2018 blood vessel clogging was another reported side effect. This happens when the filler is injected into a blood vessel in the nose or near it which causes compression and restriction of blood flow.
- Blood vessels at the end of the nose are connected to the This means any issues in these veins can lead to blindness.
- Necrosis, Fever, nausea, hives, and allergies are other detriments caused by liquid rhinoplasty.
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