An exhibition of results, each shared with written patient consent. Move the dusk light across a portrait to see the change.
She arrived after a primary rhinoplasty elsewhere had left the bridge over-resected and the tip pinched — the kind of result that looks fine in a mirror and wrong in a photograph. The brief was not to do more, but to restore.
Twelve months of healing first, then planning. The goal was a nose that read as untouched — structure returned, breathing improved, character kept.
Open revision with costal cartilage grafting to rebuild dorsal support, conservative tip refinement, and functional correction of the internal valve.
Splint at one week, social return at two, and a slow year of settling. The tip — always the last to resolve — softened beautifully by month nine.
“I stopped editing photos of myself. That is the whole review.”— Anonymous, Case 033