If a surgical rhinoplasty costs £8-10,000 (or a £4/5k roundtrip to Turkey) why would you pay for a non-surgical rhinoplasty that costs£500 when it only lasts around 18 months to 2 years?
If you’re 25 and you plan to have your nose done every 18 months by the time you’re around 35-40 it would be a false economy by that time wouldn’t it?
Well, no it’s a bit more complicated than that.
Firstly, you may not want to undergo general anaesthetic that is required for facial surgery. That along with several weeks’ recovery with a bandage on your face and bruising.
Also, as you have the procedure your body produces collagen as a result of the filler being injected. Once all the filler has dissipated, you’re still left with the collagen. So top ups become less frequent as you accumulate the collagen from treatments. That’s to say, you might need a top up after 18months for your first procedure, 2 years after the second and you may not need it again after a third or fourth treatment for another 3/5 years depending on your body’s collagen response.
It’s also worth mentioning that often the two procedures are used together and a non-surgical rhinoplasty can be used to correct or perfecta surgical one.
To understand the difference between the two lets think about artistic sculpture. If you sculpt with clay, the process is often additive. That is, you must build up clay to make the form. Contrast this to sculpting in marble where it’s reductive. Unless you have an incredible grip you probably can’t produce enough pressure to form sedimentary rock. So if the nose on your sculpture is now a bit small and overcarved, you can’t add it back on. Conversely if you imagine your clay has now been baked and the clay nose is too large, you can’t knock it off to correct the form. This is like a non-surgical rhinoplasty. You can’t technically take anything away by adding filler.
However, our eyes do not give us a good measure of a “big nose”. Much like the optical illusions that mean that curved letters have to be made slightly larger than straight ones in order to appear the same height when next to one another, curves in the nose can drastically change it’s perceived size. The angles are also important. And that’s where the magic of the non-surgical rhinoplasty comes in.
Careful manipulation of the angles at particular points can make a dramatic difference to the appearance of a nose. Don’t write off a nonsurgical approach just because you think your nose is too big.
So with that in mind it’s not a false economy if you need to spread the cost out over more time or if you don’t want the downtime associated with a surgical approach. Both have their advantages and hopefully now you know a bit more it’ll be a more informed decision for you to make.
