Insights from Dr. Etai Funk

Rhinoplasty or nose surgery to address the shape of the nose can also improve your breathing by straightening a deviated septum or making turbinates smaller. This will improve your nasal airway and nasal airflow.

If you suffer from nasal allergies, you will likely continue to be allergic to the same substances after your nose surgery. However, making the turbinates…

Cosmetic Nose Surgery orRhinoplasty is an elective outpatient procedure. This means that you will be able to go home about 1-2 hours after your surgery is completed and you have awakened from anesthesia. Rhinoplasty does require general anesthesia and typically…

The decision to have nose surgery orrhinoplasty to change the shape of the noseis a personal one. The majority of my patients will tell me that they “never liked their nose for as long as they can remember”. If you are constantly noticing your nose in…

Many of my patients are concerned about the possibility of pain after nose surgery or rhinoplasty. The fact is that nose surgery or a nose job is not necessarily a painful surgery but described as more uncomfortable. The majority of my rhinoplasty patients…

With rhinoplasty, or nose job surgery, the underlying framework of the nose is reshaped and the skin contracts and redrapes over this new framework. The skin can be completely elevated using either theopen approach to rhinoplastyor through a closed rhinoplasty…

Noses come in different shapes and sizes. Different ethnicities exhibit different nasal features. The Asian nose typically presents with a flat bridge, thicker nasal skin, wide nasal bones, an amorphous or bulbous tip, little tip projection off the face and a wide base with circular or horizontal shaped nostrils. Different Asian nationalities may have various features…