• Plastic Surgeons
  • Anesthesiologists
  • Frequently Asked Questions

Trinidad Institute of Plastic Surgery

Phone/Whatsapp 1-868-760-5591 / 1-868-794-1350, Office Verdure Health, #4A Alexandra Street, St. Clair, Port of Spain, Trinidad, W. I.

  • Home
    • About
    • CEO Message
    • Manifesto of Aesthetic and Cosmetic Surgery
  • Craniofacial Surgery
    • Reconstructive Surgery
    • Migraine Headaches Treatment Center
  • Hand Surgery
    • Hand Fractures
    • Wrist Fracture – Scaphoid Fracture
    • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
    • Tendon Injuries Hand
    • Tendon Syndromes
    • Thumb Arthritis
  • Aesthetic Medicine
    • Skin Rejuvenation
    • Excessive Sweating Treatment
    • Lip Augmentation
    • Botox Treatment
    • Wrinkle Treatment, Filler Injections
  • Cosmetic Surgery
    • Tummy Tuck
    • Breast Augmentation
    • Breast Reduction
    • Breast Lift
    • Brazilian Butt Lift
    • Liposuction
    • Gynecomastia
    • Rhinoplasty – Nose Job
    • Midface Lift, Cheek Lift
    • Facelift
    • Blepharoplasty
  • Before After Galleries
    • SAFELipo Before and After Galleries
    • Brazilian Butt Lift Before and After Galleries
    • Bilateral Breast Augmentation Before and After Galleries
    • Mommy Makeover Before and After Galleries
    • Tummy Tuck Before And After Galleries
    • Breast Reduction Before and After Galleries
    • Blepharoplasty and Periorbital Surgery Before and After Galleries
    • Breast Lift Before and After Galleries
    • Gynecomastia Before and After Galleries
  • Contact
You are here: Home / Cosmetic and Plastic Surgery - Unplugged / Ethnic Rhinoplasty – Nose Job in Diverse Ethnicities

Ethnic Rhinoplasty – Nose Job in Diverse Ethnicities

06/04/2024 By ttplastadmin

One of the most sought after facial cosmetic procedures in non-Caucasians in our Caribbean plastic surgery clinic at Trinidad Intitute of Plastic Surgery  is ethnic rhinoplasty (nose reshaping, nose job).

The noses of East Indians, Afro-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans, Asians and Hispanics or Arabs have features have strikingly different features than a Caucasian nose. Thus ethnic rhinoplasty is really a different ball game than Western rhinoplasty, almost a completely different discipline.

It is necessary, therefore, to approach each ethnic group’s nose individually and aim to have a better balance of the nose to the rest of the face, rather than a standard or ‘cookie-cutter-type’ nasal appearance. It is also important to appreciate that most ethnic patients do not want a Caucasian-looking nose, rather they want a nose that is consistent with their ethnicity but in better balance.

One of the challenges in ethnic rhinoplasty is the thick and oily skin that most East Indians, African-Americans, Asians, and Hispanics have. This thick skin imposes a disadvantage, a small delicate look to the nose can not be surgically created. One advantage to thick skin, however, is that any irregularities of the underlying bone and cartilage will not be easily seen.

The ethnic rhinoplasty patient almost always has broader and flatter nasal bones and nasal tips that are more wide and less defined. The most crucial point about ethnic rhinoplasty is to recognize that some things are weak or missing – structure, support, height of bridge, strength of tip cartilage (necessary to impart a less flat and broad look), projection of the tip while others are in excess – width of base, size of nostrils, downward rotation of tip, in short there is imbalance in the nose. The procedure of ethnic rhinoplasty is about restoring that balance by strengthening the weak parts, building up what is missing and reducing what is too much.

The difficulties are twofold: first, material is needed to build up the nose. We do not use any synthetic implants in the nose, only the body’s own cartilage or bone to build up the bridge and tip. Secondly, sometimes huge corrections are needed, particularly reductions of nostril size, size of the base of the nose or increase height of the bridge and projecion of the tip. However, the features of the nose move easily only by a couple of millimeters in each direction – bigger, smaller, higher, lower, upwards, downwards.

While implants to build up the nose are easier to use, since they come ‘off-the-shelf’, there is always an increased risk of implant infection, changing position after surgery causing asymmetry, and even possibly eroding through the skin. Cartilage and bone grafts require a donor site, are harder to work with, and generally do not produce as much change nor as easily as implants. However, infections with grafts from your own body are much less likely. Nearly all real catastrophes after rhinoplasty arise from the use of synthetic material in the nose.

Ethnic rhinoplasty can be very rewarding and help harmonize the facial features. The surgery must be approached, however, with a good understanding of the underlying anatomy, which is really very different than what one is used to seeing in Caucasian noses, and what the patient’s nasal goals are.

Ethnic rhinoplasty is advanced surgery, on par with rhinoplasty in cleft lip and palate patients, correction of posttraumatic nasal deformities or secondary rhinoplasty / revision rhinoplasty, none being procedures for the faint of heart used to shaving off small humps in cute Caucasian teenagers …

 

Trinidad Institute of Plastic Surgery – the superior choice for your nose job / ethnic rhinoplasty in the Caribbean, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Miami, New York, Toronto, London

Filed Under: Cosmetic and Plastic Surgery - Unplugged, Rhinoplasty - Nose Job Tagged With: Caribbean, nose job, rhinoplasty, rhinoplasty surgeon

Contact Us

    Your Phone Number Including Country/Area Codes (required)

    Popular Procedures

    • Caribbean Plastic Surgery Guide – Cosmetic Surgery of the Face
      • Blepharoplasty
      • Botox
      • Chemical Peel
      • Chin Augmentation
      • Chin Implants
      • Ethnic Rhinoplasty
      • Facelift Surgery
      • Facial Fillers
      • Lip augmentation
      • Medical Skin Care
      • MIDI Blepharoplasty
      • Mini Facelift
      • Natural Nose Jobs
      • Rhinoplasty
      • Upper Blepharoplasty
    • Caribbean Plastic Surgery Trinidad
      • Breast Augmentation
      • Butt Augmentation
      • Gynecomastia – “Male Boobs”
      • Liposuction
      • Mommy Makeovers: Tummy Tuck, SAFELipo, Breast Augmentation
      • SAFELipo Liposuction and Body Contouring
      • Tummy Tuck
    • SAFELipo Before and After Galleries
    • Cosmetic Surgery Price List – Plastic Surgery Cost
    • Skin Rejuvenation, Aesthetic Medicine and Medical Skin Care Services

    Copyright © 2025 Bioengineering Associates LLC