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You're listening to where before meets after? Can you have
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a rhinoplasty at any age?
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I think before the age of sixteen for sure. The
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midface the nose is still growing and changing. After sixteen,
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Depending on each individual patient's development and what have you,
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you can start having that conversation and some are ready
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and some are not. And then as we age, I
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definitely have patients who are older who have noticed their
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noses have changed, either elongated or the skin is changed,
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or they now have a bump that they never saw
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before or whatever. And so I have a population of
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older patients as well that come in for rhinoplasty.
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Is it true that your nose keeps growing as you
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get older. It's a good question.
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I think it's not really that it keeps growing. I
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think our skin changes. It gets a little thicker sometimes
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and makes it look bigger. We definitely lose some elasticity
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in the ligaments that are sort of between some of
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the cartilages, and so as those spaces lengthen. With the
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loss of elasticity or the loss of firmness or tightness
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of those little ligaments, the space grows between the cartilages,
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and so it may look like it's longer, But in general,
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I don't think the cartilages still grow as we age.
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I definitely see people who their noses look different and
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maybe bigger, but scientifically speaking, I'm not convinced that the
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cartilages are still growing. I think the shape is changing
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and some of the other things are changing, but it's
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not that it's truly grown, even if it looks bigger.
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Does anyone ever bring you photos of themselves when they
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were younger and say, I want my nose to look
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like this when I was younger.
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People will often bring pictures of themselves when they're younger,
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and you can see the changes and the aging. Sometimes
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things look differ different because maybe they've lost volume in
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their cheeks, and their nose doesn't look bigger itself, but
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some of the other structures around it have changed, or
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their lip has elongated, and so now that relationship looks different,
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and so sometimes there are other surrounding discussions beyond just
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the nose. When folks bring in pictures and start showing
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what they liked when they were younger.
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That's really interesting that lip elongating is often something that
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fools people and makes them think it's their nose isn't it.
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Definitely when the lip elongates and the soft tissues of
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the cheeks start to move and things like that, it
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can make your nose look different when you smile or animate,
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and so you do see definitely the surrounding structures contributing
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to some of the conversation about what they're seeing in
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their nose and in photos.
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