Ethnic Rhinoplasty in Los Angeles

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.

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.

Bulbous Tip Correction

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.

Dorsal Hump Correction

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.

Droopy Tip Correction

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.

Hump Reduction

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

Tip-plasty can correct a low-sitting nose, a largely up-turned nose, a pointy nose, or a bulbous nose.

Flat and Short Nose Correction

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).