Wonjin Beauty Medical Group (Wonjin Plastic Surgery Clinic)

I believe that many people are interested in having nose surgery (rhinoplasty), thus I am posting about alar reduction surgery today. Our nose is the center of our face, thus our face can appea r flat and wide if our alar (nostrils) is too wide and visible. Thus I would like to recommend alar reduction surgery or alar reduction injection for people who have wide base of the nose. Usually, one’s nose alar can appear wide because of thick skin or excessive soft tissue, and there are many people who misunderstand that they have big nostrils when they only have thick skin. Alar reduction surgery has to be designed according to each individual’s face, and the ideal width of the nose alar is the distance between the eyes. The usual surgery duration for alar reduction surgery itself is around 1 hour and the stitches can be removed after 7 days. There is an alar reduction injection called ‘alar sculpting injection’ which can melt the excessive soft tissue...

Have you ever heard the praise “Nose is the center of face” ? Eyes are the part that creates overall impression of face, but the part that plays important role on balance and harmony of our face is Nose! Especially, nostrils (alar) and nose tip are the most impressive part from the front view. When the nose alar is wide and big, the nostrils look big which creates dull impression and make the nose to appear low. The ideal width of your alar is the same as the distance between your eyes, shorter than the width of your lips and has to be wider as it comes down. Alar (nostril) reduction needs about 30 minutes of surgical duration. It is a simple surgery compare to other surgeries and it allows the reduction of the width of alar as well as correcting on wide nostrils or uneven nostrils to beautiful egg shaped nostrils. However it requires experienced doctor’s précised performance as the nose tip may appear even thicker if the alar was reduced too much. ...