Q. What Are the Risks of Alar Rim Elevation Surgery?

Hello. I’m Kim Hyung-taek, CEO and chief surgeon at Kowon Plastic Surgery, a clinic specializing in noses.

Today, this post is about a question from someone who wants alar rim elevation surgery.

Q. What are the risks of alar rim elevation surgery?

What I want to achieve with nose surgery is to improve the shape of the tip when I scrunch my nose.

When you scrunch your nose, the alar rims go up, right?! I want to raise the alar rims by that amount.

While looking into plastic surgery clinics, I noticed that unlike alar base reduction, this is not something every hospital offers, so I don’t think alar rim elevation nose surgery is a common procedure.

I saw that only a few plastic surgery clinics offer it.

While searching on Naver Knowledge iN, I came across a doctor’s answer saying that alar rim elevation surgery does not exist, and that made me a little skeptical.

I’ve had bad experiences with a particular procedure at an unfamiliar clinic before, so if this is an absurd surgery or if there’s a reason why not all plastic surgery clinics offer it, I think I should consider nose surgery more carefully, so I’m asking.

1. Is alar rim elevation nose surgery a legitimate procedure?

2. If so, why isn’t it widely performed, and why is it offered only at a small number of clinics?

3. Is it a nose surgery with risks such as side effects or awkwardness after surgery?

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As you mentioned, alar rim elevation nose surgery is a procedure performed at some plastic surgery clinics.

1. Is alar rim elevation nose surgery a legitimate procedure?

-> It is difficult to say that any surgery has a clear origin, but alar rim elevation surgery is mentioned in a book considered a textbook of rhinoplasty, called Dallas Rhinoplasty: Nasal Surgery by the Masters. And in actual surgical cases, you can see that the alar rims have been raised.

2. If so, why isn’t it widely performed, and why is it offered only at a small number of clinics?

-> First of all, very few people want to raise the alar rims.

Most people want to leave the alar rims as they are and lower the nasal tip, so it seems that there are almost no people who want to do the opposite, leaving the nasal tip as it is and raising the alar rims.

3. Is it a nose surgery with risks such as side effects or awkwardness after surgery?

-> It is not dangerous at all. Because the scar remains inside the nose, there is no visible external scar, and it does not become noticeably awkward.

I hope you get a good result.

Thank you.

Source: https://kin.naver.com/qna/detail.nhn?d1id=7&dirId=70110&docId=228478770&page=1#answer2

https://blog.naver.com/kowon_note/223330250577