Is a perfect ‘side profile’ worth these devastating side effects?
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Perhaps we’ve taken the nose shape obsession a little far.
These days plastic surgery has become a lot more commonplace, but it still requires a significant amount of downtime, financial investment and can be quite painful.
In lieu of surgery we’ve seen a rise in ‘gateway beauty treatments’, which are essentially designed to offer some form of enhancement without actually going under the knife.
Somewhere between surgery and the gateway treatments sits injectables. We’ve put them in our frown lines, cheeks and lips – but now people are putting them in their nose. Yes, nose filler.
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Otherwise known as a ‘liquid rhinoplasty’, this beauty hack is majorly trending on TikTok as it offers a low cost, temporary change to the nose with literally no recovery time.
The process uses hyaluronic acid dermal fillers to reshape the nose, redefine the tip and even straighten the bridge of the nose. It can take around 10-15 minutes to achieve and you won’t have to deal with black eyes and bloody noses for weeks after as you would for an actual nose job.
The injections usually last between a year and two years, so recipients of this work achieve a semi-permanent solution to their nose woes.
However, with the rise in liquid rhinoplasties being performed, surgeons have also seen major risks pop up that commonly get ignored in the TikTok hysteria.
Experts told Allure that complications can be due to the presence of ‘end arteries’ in the tip of the nose. End arteries or terminal arteries offer the only blood supply to a region or tissue, meaning that if they are blocked, there is no other way for blood to get to that place.
The end arteries in the nose include one that feeds blood to the retina in your eye and to the tissue around the nose. If these arteries are blocked or constricted by the filler, it could potentially cause blindness or even the decay of that skin in the nose.
The experts added that the sides and tip of the nose are ‘minefields’ for end arteries and that the ‘safest place’ to inject the nose is along the bridge.
Dr Rod J Rohrich, founding partner of the Dallas Plastic Surgery Institute told Allure that when the retinal artery is hit blindness occurs right away and ‘there’s no reliable way to fix it’.
If it hits the artery that supplies blood to the nose tissue, Dr Rohrich says signs may include pain, discoloration and ‘blanching’ of the skin. An injection of Hyaluronidase (the enzyme that dissolves hyaluronic acid) can reverse the effects if caught early.
"As a rhinoplasty surgeon, I do this nonsurgical rhinoplasty very frequently, but, of course, I know and respect the anatomy," he told the publication, adding that he’s seen people who’ve lost the tips and sides of their nose with a badly placed injection.
"It always disturbs me, though, when I see someone who's not a rhinoplasty surgeon willy-nilly injecting the nose, because it can be risky if you don't know what you're doing."
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