Reduction Rhinoplasty – Making Your Nose Smaller

Dotted orange lines show the cuts that are made inside the nose to allow the surgeon to lift the skin and mucous membrane off the nose.

The nasal tip cartilages are made smaller by removing strips from their upper edges.

Shaded orange area shows cartilage that can be removed from the nasal tip.

The hump is removed from the nasal bridge – it is part cartilage, from the top of the nasal septum and the upper lateral cartilages and part bone, from the nasal bones.

Shaded orange area along the bridge of the nose shows a bump or hump that can be moved.

When the bump has been removed the bridge or roof of the nose is flat, wide and "open" as if the ridge tiles have been removed from the roof of a building. The inset window shows the removed hump and strips from the right and left tip cartilages.

The bridge of the nose is then very carefully examined for little irregularities to smooth off.

The roof of the nose is closed after hump removal by bringing the nasal bones together. This requires hairline breaks to be made as shown in image. These breaks also make the nose a little narrower and can be used to straighten a nose.

The dashed orange lines show where the bones are moved inward with small break lines, to close the roof.