Ethnic Rhinoplasty: Nose Reshaping in Harley Street, London

Dr De Silva believes that nose reshaping requires special techniques for improving definition and shape and keeping a natural appearance. Whether you are from an Asian, Middle Eastern, Afro-Caribbean, or any other background, ethnic rhinoplasty is tailored to your individual facial features.

What To Expect From Ethnic Rhinoplasty?

As the name suggests, ethnic rhinoplasty refers to a style of nose job that is designed to preserve the ethnic nasal characteristics of a patient and requires a different set of techniques and skills for each patient.

There is no “one size fits all” approach with ethnic nose surgery, as what looks beautiful and natural for one ethnicity may look less attractive to another.

When performing an ethnic nose surgery in London, Dr De Silva works to make the corrections you would like without taking away any of the ethnic identifiers that link you to your cultural background. His extensive experience means that he is extremely familiar with each ethnic group’s unique features.

What Are The Challenges Of Ethnic Rhinoplasty?

Every ethnicity is marked by a unique nose structure. Typically, people from varying ethnic backgrounds have different nasal arches, skin thickness around the nose and nostril sizes.

During your initial consultation, your surgeon will do a full examination of your nose, taking note of the adjustments you would like to make, and creating a plan of action that meets your requirements. Your surgeon will take special care to preserve your ethnic features as part of your surgical plan.

In ethnic nose surgery, the skin is often thicker and there may be a fat pad at the tip of the nose, this may require refinement and graft material to give more tip definition. For markedly thick ethnic skin advanced techniques are required to give more definition to the bridge of the nose often utilising sculpted graft material. To achieve these results, your surgeon will change the shape of the bone and cartilage.

What Are The Risks?

As with most nose surgeries, all patients have a degree of swelling and bruising that resolves over a period of weeks, 80-90% of the swelling resolves over the first six weeks although the final result is not apparent until at least twelve to eighteen months.

Risks that are relatively uncommon include asymmetries, tip definition, delayed healing, numbness, infection and scarring. The majority of these risks are avoidable with technical expertise and skill. Revision rates for nose surgery are around 8%, although the risks can be resolved, revision rhinoplasty is more challenging than primary rhinoplasty as a consequence of previous surgery and scarring.

Dr De Silva Is An Advocate For Patient Safety

Patient safety is of key importance for all facial plastic surgery. The intricate anatomy of the nose requires precision and care. Dr De Silva is a keen advocate of patient safety and has championed the need for patient safety on Sky news.