You stop thinking of it lightly at some point. You are no longer sitting and thinking. Your reflections on your nose in countless mirrors, endless photographs, and endless angles have made it a thought much more urgent than simply rumbling. Maybe you have wanted to do something for many years now? Perhaps scrolling through a recent photo drove you to insanity. How to get a nose job. Regardless, you are here humming and hawing over making the right call.
The question merits an honest answer. Beverly Hills Rhinoplasty Center: Deepak Dugar, MD, where his entire practice has been built on guiding patients through just this kind of decision without pressure and without compromising.
The nose is different. Anything that happens to it usually sticks around. It’s that kind of permanence that makes the decision to get a nose job feel so fraught, and one reason why so many people drag their feet on the choice for years before taking a leap.
And then there is the fear of doing it wrong. A ridiculously bad result not just badly but artificially so. The kind where you could just tell. That fear is reasonable. This is why the surgeon you pick is perhaps the single most important variable in this equation.
What The Consultation Actually Does
Everyone walks into a consultation expecting the hard sell. Many of the consultations you participate in are just that. The surgeon comes in, agrees to everything you want, gives a quote, and sets a date.
Not so at Beverly Hills Rhinoplasty Center, Dr. Dugar looks at your nose piece by piece. He examines your facial proportions, your bone structure, the thickness of your skin, and what type of nose actually fits you rather than simply accommodating whatever you believe you want. Sometimes those two things align. Sometimes they don’t.
He will tell you if what you’re requesting isn’t compatible with your anatomy. If no surgery is the right way to go, he’ll tell you that too. Such candor is rare, and it ought not to be.
The Closed Approach And Why This Changes Everything
During the consultation, one thing patients realize is that not all nose jobs function similarly. Most surgeons perform this through the open technique, which involves a small incision across the columella (the tissue that exists between the right and left nostrils). For many patients, it heals, but the scar is a real one and a permanent one.
Dr. Dugar performs closed rhinoplasty with all incisions concealed within the nose. No external marks. It preserves more of the internal structures of the nose, such as ligaments and blood supply, which factors into producing natural-appearing results rather than surgical-looking results. This distinction is very important for patients whose greatest fear is looking “done.”
What A Nose Job Will Actually Work On
But before you go ahead, there is something to know. A rhinoplasty can fix many things, but perfection should not be the goal. It’s proportion.
Bulbous tips, dorsal humps, wide nasal bones, drooping tips, and noses needing breathing work are basic to Dr. Dugar’s forte. When desired and needed in a patient’s case, septorhinoplasty can address functional breathing abnormalities at the same time as cosmetic deformities, performed as one operative procedure.
It is not going to give you someone else’s nose. At Beverly Hills Rhinoplasty Center, the before-and-after gallery shows results that look like better versions of the same person not replacements. That’s the point.
The Nose Job Chat No One Prepares You For
Here’s one thing that patients rarely talk about in civilized society. There is a lot of anxiety around getting a nose job that isn’t really about the surgery. It is about the opinion of others. Will they notice? Will they say something? Will it look as though you have really gone overboard?
These are natural concerns and should be mentioned in a consult. This was part of the design behind a closed scarless technique Dr. Dugar follows in surgery. This is a surgery that is often invisible because there’s no external scar, and when the result complements your face, most patients don’t want anyone to notice they have had a procedure done.
How To Know If You’re Ready
There is no checklist that says the time has come. For a long time, not only a few weeks ago, you have thought about it. You change, not because someone inspired you to make the change, but instead, it is about what and how you want the change. You specifically know how your nose irritated you and why, not just that it needed to go. And you are willing to wait for the outcome, because for a nose such as yours, it takes close to one year for the full healing.
Assuming all of that rings true for you, the next step is simple. Schedule a consultation and be real. Very few patients who meet with Dr. Dugar are actually surgical candidates and that’s by design. Whatever that means, the goal is to get your face to look just right.
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