Rhinoplasty Surgery

Most rhinoplasty takes two to three hours under general anaesthesia. On the day, Dr. Sohrab works from the plan you both agreed at consultation, not from a standard routine.

• He marks the profile and runs through the plan with you before any incision
• Access goes through the nostrils for a closed approach, or across the columella for an open one
• Ultrasonic instruments or fine osteotomes reshape the bone
• He trims or grafts cartilage to set the tip, the bridge and the support around the nostrils
• If breathing needs it, he straightens the septum at this stage
• Fine sutures close everything, and an external splint stays on for about a week

You’ll usually go home the same day. Adding chin augmentation makes the operation longer, but you then recover from both at once.

Recovery After Nose Surgery 

Your First Two Weeks

Swelling and bruising around the eyes are at their worst around day three and ease off after that. The splint comes off at about a week, and that first look catches people out because the nose is still swollen. It isn’t the final shape. Sleep with your head up, stay out of the gym, and keep glasses off the bridge for now. Most people return to desk work within two weeks, with a little makeup over any bruising that’s left.

Follow-Up Visits and the Final Shape

Follow-up appointments continue at set points through the first year. The tip is the last part to settle, especially in thicker skin, so the final shape usually shows somewhere between twelve and eighteen months. Honestly, patience does more for the result in that stretch than anything else. Patients coming from abroad or another Emirate should fit in at least one follow-up before they travel home.

Results You Can Expect From Rhinoplasty Surgery

How the Nose Settles

Rhinoplasty changes bone and cartilage for good, so the new shape stays with you as you get older. By six months, photos already look close to the end result, although small changes keep happening for another year. At follow-up, Dr. Sohrab goes through your before-and-after photos with you. Comparing your face with your own earlier photos, rather than with someone else’s, keeps expectations grounded.

Procedures Often Combined With Nose Surgery

A weak chin can make any nose look bigger, which is why many patients pair rhinoplasty surgery with chin augmentation to balance the profile. Older patients sometimes add a facelift or neck lift in the same session, so they only go through one recovery.

Open, Closed and Ultrasonic Rhinoplasty Options

Three techniques cover most nose surgery. Dr. Sohrab checks your skin thickness, the width of the bone and how strong the cartilage is, and then picks the one that suits your nose.

Closed Rhinoplasty

Every incision sits inside the nostrils, so there’s no scar on the outside at all. Swelling tends to go down faster as well. It works well for straightforward hump removal and smaller changes to the tip.

Open Rhinoplasty

Open rhinoplasty needs a small incision across the columella, the strip of skin between the nostrils. That opening lets Dr. Sohrab see the whole framework underneath. Complex tips, crooked noses and most revision rhinoplasty cases need this view, and the scar fades to a faint line within a few months.

Ultrasonic Rhinoplasty

Piezoelectric instruments do the bone work here. They cut bone but leave the soft tissue around it alone, so bruising and swelling usually run lower than with a traditional chisel. They also let Dr. Sohrab shape the bridge in finer detail.

Revision Rhinoplasty

Some patients who arrive after surgery elsewhere left them with a pinched tip, a collapsed bridge or trouble breathing. Revision is harder work. Scar tissue replaces the clean layers a first operation relies on, and new cartilage may have to come from the septum, the ear or a rib. Dr. Sohrab looks at every revision case on its own terms and tells you straight what he can realistically achieve.