Blog Category - Nose Surgery

Mar

Why You Should Only Choose a Facial Plastic Surgeon for Facial Procedures

If you want to rejuvenate your face with plastic surgery, choosing the right plastic surgeon is the most important decision you can make. With so many doctors around, narrowing your choice can feel like an overwhelming task. However, this process becomes much easier once you und...

Mar

Why Rhinoplasty and Chin Implant Often Go Hand-in-Hand

Two facial features typically project further from the face than other features: the nose and the chin. As important as symmetry is to beauty, the proportions of these features can play a similarly significant role in the attractiveness of the face. Unfortunately, many plastic...

Mar

How Aging Changes Your Face

Aging is an inescapable part of life. Your body will undergo many changes as you get older, but few will stand out as much as those that occur on your face. From his perspective as an internationally recognized facial plastic surgeon, Dr. Min S. Ahn shares some of the most commo...

Mar

Why a Brow Lift Is Frequently Paired with Other Facial Procedures

Deep-set lines and sagging skin on the forehead are leading signs of premature aging. As a double-board-certified plastic surgeon, Dr. Min S. Ahn routinely helps his patients remove years from their appearance with a brow lift surgery. Specifically, he performs a temporal brow...

Mar

Alternatives to Rhinoplasty

Subtlety is the key to successful rhinoplasty surgery. Dramatic changes can take your appearance to extremes, and the result can be a nose that seems less natural or even believable, and less at home among your facial features. The subtle approach extends to a pati...

Mar

Why Plastic Surgery Is So Popular Now

Writing about another time of great adversity, the French Revolution, Charles Dickens concluded, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …” The same could be said of 2020, a season of lockdowns, quarantine, delayed plans and forgotten dreams. Yet, amon...

Mar

What Exactly is Done During a Rhinoplasty?

What can be done to a nose? Make a large tip (bulbous) more refined and smaller. HOW TO MAKE A LARGE TIP (BULBOUS) MORE REFINED AND SMALLER Patients who have noses with large, bulbous tips often want them to be smaller and more refined. This is accomplished...

Mar

What is Rhinoplasty?

One of the most popular cosmetic surgeries today is rhinoplasty. Rhinoplasty is a technically precise procedure that involves changing the shape of the nose in order to produce facial harmony. The goals are to improve appearance while maintaining (and even improving) functiona...

Mar

Getting a nose job: Is it worth it?

According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, a rhinoplasty (nose job) is one of the most common cosmetic procedures performed in the United States — only second to a breast augmentation. In 2017, almost 219,000 people had the procedure performed. With more and more p...

Mar

Reasons to choose a progressive surgeon

Choose a facial plastic surgeon who is forward thinking and progressive. It always amazes me when I hear from patients stories of how certain procedures and surgeries are done elsewhere in an antiquated, dated manner. Today I saw two patients in consultation for rhinoplast...

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