Flared Nostril Reduction With Rhinoplasty – Benefits, Drawbacks, And Risks

Flared or wide nostrils affect your overall face, taking away your self-esteem and also making you too cautious about your looks. It gives your face an unbalanced look, especially when you smile or talk.

The best solution to this is the flared nostril reduction with rhinoplasty. It’s a surgical procedure that reduces the big nostrils using different techniques.  However, this procedure isn’t suitable for everybody. You need to be in good health to get it, and you should also be aware of all the risks associated with it. 

What Are The Causes Of Flared Nostrils

Some people have small or normal nostrils that perfectly blend with their face, while some have large nostrils. It’s usually because of these reasons:

• Injury and trauma can change the shape of the nostrils over time.
• Breathing habits like flaring the nostrils often may affect their shape.
• In certain populations, naturally wider nostrils are a common facial feature.
• Ethnicity and inherited family features often play a big role in nostril shape.
• Genetic factors passed down from parents often decide nostril shape.

Flared Nostril Reduction With Rhinoplasty

Flared nostril reduction with rhinoplasty, also known as alarplasty and alar base reduction, is a process to reduce wide nostrils. Through this surgery, you can make your nostrils smaller by adjusting their width and size.  This procedure is usually a part of the rhinoplasty, but you can get it standalone as well if it is a lot cheaper. 

In this surgery, the surgeon makes incisions on your alar area, removes the extra soft tissue from it, making your nostrils narrower and smaller. It also helps with the elevated nasal tip, making it more refined and defined.

How Does Flared Nostril Surgery Work?

The long nostril reduction is performed using different techniques depending on the nasal conditions and how wide the nostrils are. The most common techniques are these two:

• Weir Excision: Where the excess tissue from the base of the nostril is removed, making it more refined, balanced, and also smaller.
• Alar Base Resection: To narrow the nostril, the surgeons cut the soft tissue and excessive skin from the nostril creases. Since the nostril crease is a natural fold, the scars aren’t too visible.

Sometimes, one technique is used while sometimes both are used to achieve natural-looking results. The surgeon does a detailed analysis of your nose and then chooses the best technique. The cause of the wide nostrils plays an important role in deciding the right technique for the surgery.

How Much Does Alarplasty Cost?

The cost of the procedure depends on the country. In the US, it can go from $4,000 to $8,000 if you take it separately. However, if you’re taking it as part of the rhinoplasty, then expect to pay up to $20,000. 

If you’re from Australia, then you may have to pay around $7,500 to $25,000. The price of the alarplasty in Turkey tends to be way cheaper. For a standalone procedure, the cost is $4,500 to $8,000.

Mind you that the cost may vary depending on the experience of the surgeon, reputation of the clinic, and the complexity of the procedure.

Who’s The Right Candidate For Flared Nostril Reduction Rhinoplasty?

The following are the people who can undergo this surgery to make their nostrils smaller:

• People who are born with wide or spread-out nostrils that don’t match their face shape.
• People who simply want their nostrils to look more in balance with their other facial features.
• People who notice their nostrils flaring more after having a rhinoplasty in the past.

Recovery

Compared to other procedures, flared nostril surgery is way less invasive and not so severe. Only the reshaping and removal of the extra tissue is done in it. It means the recovery from it is way faster.

After the surgery, you get swelling, bruising, and tenderness, which go away within 1 to 2 weeks. In the same amount of time, the stitches are removed, yet you don’t have to start with your regular routine. 

Doing any strenuous work like heavy exercise, playing sports, or running is strictly prohibited as it can be harmful to you. To see the final results, you’ll have to wait 1 to 3 months.

Why Choose Flared Nostril Reduction With Rhinoplasty?

You can choose this procedure if you want to get: 

• A more refined or narrowed shape for your nostrils and overall nose.
• A touch-up or correction if your nostrils look too flared after a previous nose surgery.
• Better facial balance by making the nose fit more naturally with your features.
• Nostril reshaping that respects and enhances your natural ethnic features.

Things To Consider For Flared Nostril Reduction

These are the things that you need to consider before you get the surgery:

• Scars may appear, but are often well hidden.
• Removing too much can make the nostrils look too small.
• Swelling and bruising can last a few weeks.
• A second surgery might be needed in some cases.

Procedure

At Asli Tarcan Clinic in Turkey, you’ll meet our board-certified surgeons, and then they will consult with you. They deeply analyze your nose, understand your goals, and let you know about the procedure and how it’s going to take place.

Then the procedure starts. Our surgeon makes incisions on the alar region, inside or at the base of the nostril. They remove the extra tissue from the nostrils, narrowing the alar base and making your nostrils balanced and more refined. They also adjust the tip during the process.

They then close the incisions with sutures. The surgeons use local anesthesia in this procedure, which doesn’t make you fully unconscious.  It’s also an outpatient surgery, which means you can go home on the same day.

Potential Risks Of Alar Nose Reduction Rhinoplasty

Though the alar nose reduction rhinoplasty isn’t as invasive or complex as the rhinoplasty, it still carries some risks.

• Infection
• Delayed wound healing
• Change in the sense of smell
• Anaesthetic risks
• Scarring
• Numbness of the nose tip
• Breathing difficulties
• Nasal septum

Asli Tarcan Clinic – Get a Refined and Balanced Nose

Flared nostril reduction with rhinoplasty is a nose job for big nostrils, by which the wide nostrils are reduced. Different techniques are used in it, such as the Weir excision and the alar base resection. In this surgery, the excess tissue of your nostrils is removed, narrowing them and giving your nose a balanced and refined appearance.

If you want to get affordable and safe flared nostril rhinoplasty surgery, you can contact the Asli Tarcan clinic. With double board-certified surgeons, compassionate staff, and advanced equipment, we make your surgery safe and also give you a natural-looking nose.

Can you combine nostril reduction surgery with other surgeries?

Surgeons often do nostril reduction along with rhinoplasty or tip shaping to get a balanced result.

Are there any non-surgical procedures to correct flared nostrils?

You can get Botox, but it’ll only calm the nostrils temporarily, while surgery gives you a permanent correction of the nostrils.

How long will it take you to see the final results after the surgery?

It usually takes 1 to 3 months to see the final results after the surgery.