New Instant Nose Jobs Make Surgery SO Last Year

by Marissa Gold (Subscribe to Marissa Gold's posts)
Posted Aug 17th 2009 at 5:00PM

Nose jobs: A thing of the past? Photo: Getty Images.

Many women are unhappy with their facial features -- especially noses -- but not so many actually opt to do anything about it.

A new procedure may chance all that.

Injectibles like Juvederm® and Restylane®, often used to fill in facial wrinkles, are now being used to reshape the nose in minutes without anethesia or incisions.

Instead of going under the knife for a nose job, doctors merely inject either brand of hyaluronic acid (which requires no allergy risk and is gradually absorbed back into the body's own supply) into any desired areas to even out the shape of the nose.

While it can't make the nose smaller, it can add volume to smooth away a bump or fill out a crooked area. One syringe (which costs about $500 and up, depending on your location) lasts about 6 months to a year.

Interestingly, this procedure is technically an "off-label" use for the fillers, as even seemingly common procedures like lip plumping were not included in the original FDA approval:

"The FDA approved Juvéderm® hyaluronic acid dermal fillers for the correction of moderate to severe facial wrinkles and folds, such as the parentheses that run from the corner of the mouth to the nose." says Dr. Andrew Jacono, a facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon at the New York Center for Facial Plastic and Laser Surgery.

Any other use was not taken into consideration by the FDA, although doctors widely practice them.

Would you reshape your nose with injections? Have you had hyaluronic acid fillers already? Let us know in a comment!

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Tags: injectibles, juvederm, nose-job, restylane, rhinoplasty

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Anita, 8-19-2009, 9:28AM

Yes! I had this procedure done in Brazil about two years ago! The surgeon told me he was going to lift my nose and I protested and said, "I don't want a pig nose!" He smiled and said, "You won't have a pig nose. I am going to cause the light to hit your nose in a different place than it does now, and you will look younger. I went to Dr Antonio Carlos Strumiello, stru at uol.com.br and boy was it worth it. I think he used Restylane, as I recall. Everything I had done was half the price of the USA and it was in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the 4th largest city in the world. I was nervous about going down there, but everything was top of the line. And, the hotel was connected to the plastic surgery hospital. The patients are not sick people, so there are less germs in that hospital, built by leading plastic surgeons of Sao Paulo. Anyway, I looked younger and there was not a bump that I could see on my nose, but somehow what he told me did happen. The light hit my nose in a peculiar way and I looked younger all the time and including in photographs. I am going to go back again because after some time it wears off.

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ineedmoreinfo, 8-19-2009, 1:49PM

Girlfriend did this and it was a mistake. She should have left well enough alone because it messed up her nose. She had a little tiny flaw that no one noticed unless she pointed it out. Now she has a very obvious wound where they did the injection into her nose and it won't propery heal - part of that could be her fault for "squeezing" the wounded area but she couldn't stand the mess they made and now she's probably scarred for life.

She went in for something else and now has a knot behind her ear. The doctor doesn't understand why his nurse or assistant even gave her an injection back there. We probably ought to sue these people for incompetance, but like anything, if it sounds too good to be true it probably is ... and there can always be complications.

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Julia, 8-28-2009, 1:26PM

The idea of an injection on my nose scares me.

There is another product that I have used for a while, it is not a gimmik, it is real. It has being around for over 25 years. It helps to refine and reshape the nose.

They are a pair of nose inserts that when you place them inside your nostril , inmediately give your nose a lift making your nose to look narrower and refined.
I started using them for photo shoots but I am so adicted now that I wear them all the time. I recommend them.

I like the US brand NoseSecret. It is a cheap lift without the the pain of the injections. An with this economy $34.95 is nothing to boost your look.
Check video at youtube.com or NoseSecret.com

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B, 1-05-2011, 8:42AM

I am 57 years old and I love my face. I have done nothing other than use Estee lauder night repair and have worn sun screen since the early 1970's. I was 17 when I started. Now I use it 24-7.
I would love to see some more women here who love their faces.

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