Dr. Kenneth Kim
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Every individual has a unique structure to their nose, which plays a central role in their facial appearance. When dissatisfied with this part of your appearance, it can literally stare you in the face with each glance in the mirror. However, broader surgical techniques might not always produce results balanced with your individual features. Ethnic rhinoplasty involves an adaptive approach that enhances your aesthetic without compromising what makes you unique. Dr. Kenneth Kim provides several popular options for ethnic rhinoplasty in Los Angeles, including African American rhinoplasty, Hispanic rhinoplasty, and Middle Eastern rhinoplasty.
A Custom Nose Job Tailored to Your Singular Appearance
Ethnic rhinoplasty is a cosmetic procedure nose job that will improve your appearance while honoring the distinctive features of your ethnic heritage. The techniques used and adjustments made will be tailored to ensure a natural-looking result that enhances your appearance.
Two core elements of ethnic rhinoplasty in L.A. include:
Also called a Black nose job, this procedure is designed to address common concerns among African American patients. The noses of our African American patients tend to:
When addressing these concerns, Dr. Kim takes care to craft balanced outcomes. Rather than creating a thin nose with a high bridge, he makes subtle adjustments that allow the nose to look more dynamic without an unnatural feel.
Dr. Kim wants to augment your appearance by helping you to look your personal best. True beauty is never born of imitation. Dr. Kim believes real beauty comes from within.
Patients with Hispanic heritage can have diverse nasal features. One of the common aspects is thicker skin, which requires a specialized approach. Additionally, some nose features addressed for patients with Hispanic rhinoplasty include:
Hispanic ethnicity covers a broad range of heritages, each with subtle differences in appearance. When building a plan for a Hispanic rhinoplasty, Dr. Kim adapts his approach based on your individual features. He takes into account aspects such as skin thickness and underlying structures to produce balanced results.
Patients with Middle Eastern heritage can have thicker nasal skin and other features that require a personalized approach. Middle Eastern rhinoplasty often focuses on a reduction in the nose’s size. This involves careful removal of cartilage or bone to create a nose shape and size that matches the patient’s natural features.
Some common aspects addressed with Middle Eastern rhinoplasty include:
The nose is a focal point of our entire countenance. Most people seek rhinoplasty because they are unhappy with an overly large or imbalanced nose. An ethnic rhinoplasty will restore symmetry to your face and harmony to your appearance without changing your fundamental look.
Some key benefits for ethnic rhinoplasty patients when working with Dr. Kim include:
Ethnic rhinoplasty is best for Los Angeles patients who want to alter their nose shape without creating facial imbalance. The procedure’s goals are not to create a standardized nose that fits a Western beauty ideal. Instead, it is about crafting a nose shape that is balanced and aligned with your natural features.
Additionally, the best age for rhinoplasty is when your nose has reached adult size, starting at about 16 years old (for female patients) and 18 years old (for male patients). Before this, the nose shape is still developing. Thus, any surgical changes may look different once the nose reaches adult size.
Dr. Kim’s core surgical tenets are safety and precision. He performs awake procedures, allowing patients to avoid the dangers and drawbacks of general anesthesia (such as memory loss). Local anesthesia still prevents any pain. However, many surgeons do not use it because it requires an exact surgical hand. Dr. Kim’s skill allows for patients to remain awake without any pain, and his precision crafts more refined results that last longer and better match your targets.
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The duration of your procedure will vary. Most range somewhere between 3 and 4 hours. Dr. Kim creates a comfortable and relaxed environment that allows the procedure time to pass smoothly. Patients may also have anxiolytics (such as Valium or Xanax) to further reduce any procedure-related stress. Once your surgery concludes, you can return home right away with someone to drive you.
You should begin seeing results within a week of surgery. Since Dr. Kim’s technique avoids internal scarring, these results should remain more stable. Less precise techniques can cause scarring to form. Over time, this can alter the nose’s shape. All incisions are made in locations to hide any scarring.
A bulbous nose indicates a nose with a large amount of soft tissue at the nasal tip, which makes the overall nose wide and flat on the face. In order to correct this, we will perform a tip-plasty.
This can be corrected in two ways: one is reducing the hump by shaving the hump, which is a relatively simple procedure. The second is to augment the area between the hump which is the radix (between the eyes, the upper part of the bridge) and to bring up the nasal tip.
A droopy nasal tip can be corrected using tip-plasty. If the tip requires more refinement, cartilage can be grafted to achieve the ideal shape of the nose.
A hump reduction procedure entails two important parts: smoothing out the nose bridge and elevating the drooping nose tip to obtain a harmonious and ideal nose shape.
Tip-plasty can correct a low-sitting nose, a largely up-turned nose, a pointy nose, or a bulbous nose.
These noses are similar to Asian noses in that the nose has to be augmented, and this is done by using one’s own rib cartilage, ear cartilage, and fascia on the scalp. These patients will notice a dramatic change, as a more pronounced nose will make the face appear smaller and more 3-dimensional (vs flat).
Like ethnic rhinoplasty, Dr. Kim’s approach to eyelid surgery involves a creatively crafted and expertly executed cosmetic procedure. The surgery corrects aesthetic and functional concerns while also celebrating the unique beauty of your ethnic heritage. Combining it with ethnic rhinoplasty can supplement an additional dynamic element to your facial aesthetic.
Dr. Kim has dedicated his career to enhancing the aesthetics of ethnic characteristics without fundamentally altering them. Hence, every ethnic rhinoplasty surgery is a custom job. At your private consultation, Dr. Kim will learn enough about your situation to provide an accurate quote with a transparent cost breakdown.
We don’t want to change you. Instead, our goal is to help you become the best version of yourself with features that emphasize your natural beauty. Refine your features with the elite team at Dream Medical Group. Contact us to learn more and book your consultation with world-renowned plastic surgeon Dr. Kenneth Kim.
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