Rhinoplasty.
A nose surgery built around your nasal architecture — not an off-the-shelf shape, not a current trend. Functional and aesthetic in the same plan.
What rhinoplasty actually is, in our hands.
Rhinoplasty is the reshaping of bone, cartilage, and the soft tissue that drapes over them. Said that way, it sounds tidy — almost mechanical. In practice, every nose carries a different inheritance: a dorsal hump from one parent, a tip projection from the other, a deviated septum that has been quietly affecting breathing for twenty years. The operation has to read all of that before it changes any of it.
We use both open and closed approaches. Open rhinoplasty leaves a small incision across the columella and gives full visual access to the tip cartilages — useful when the work is structural, when the tip is asymmetric, or when a previous operation needs revision. Closed rhinoplasty hides every incision inside the nostrils and is usually the choice when the bridge is the main concern and the tip cartilages cooperate. The decision is made per patient, in consultation, after we look at your photographs from three angles and listen to what bothers you when you look in the mirror. We do not pre-commit to a technique on the website.
The result we are looking for is a nose that fits the face it sits on. Not the most-photographed nose of this season — the one no one would notice you had operated on.Aesmax
The most honest thing we can tell you is that rhinoplasty asks for patience. The visible swelling resolves in weeks; the final shape, the one you will see in photographs and in the mirror at six in the morning, takes months to settle — sometimes a full year for the tip. That timeline is the actual operation, in a sense. We will follow you through every stage of it.
The procedure in numbers.
From the day of surgery to the final result.
Day one to two
You wake in your hospital room, splint in place, mild internal packing if used. Most discomfort comes from feeling congested, not pain. We see you the morning after surgery before you are discharged, usually after a single overnight stay.
Hospital → home
Splint removed, the first look
The splint comes off at five to seven days. The nose is swollen, sometimes more on one side than the other — this is normal and not a sign of asymmetry. Most patients are surprised the new shape is already legible at this point. Bruising around the eyes is fading.
Splint off, light bruising
Social return
Around day seven to ten you can return to most social settings without obvious signs of surgery. A little concealer covers any residual under-eye discoloration. Strenuous exercise still waits another two to three weeks; nothing that risks an impact to the nose for six.
Back to work, dinners
The bulk of the swelling resolves
Over weeks one and two, the visible puffiness drops noticeably each morning. By the end of week two most of the obvious swelling is gone. A residual fullness in the tip persists — it is the part of the nose with the slowest lymphatic drainage. Patience is the only treatment.
Swelling down sharply
The shape settles
Between months three and six the bridge and sidewalls are essentially in their final form. The tip continues to refine for up to a full year. We see you at one week, one month, three months, and twelve months — longer if you want, and at no extra cost. Photographs at the twelve-month visit are how we judge a result, not how we judge it at three weeks.
Final shape settles
The questions we hear most often.
Will it look obvious that I have had something done?
The result we work toward is one that nobody flags. People say you look rested or that you look like yourself. If the work is structural enough that someone with a trained eye notices on close inspection, that is the limit of how visible it should be — never more.
Will my breathing be affected?
If you are breathing well now, our priority is that you continue to. If you have a deviated septum, narrowed valves, or chronic congestion, we usually address those at the same operation — the access is already there, and it is better to fix breathing once than to revisit the airway later. We discuss this specifically in your consultation.
Open or closed — which one will I have?
We decide together in consultation, after looking at your nose. Closed is preferred when the work is mostly on the bridge and the tip cartilages are well-positioned. Open is preferred when the tip is asymmetric, when major structural work is required, or when revising a previous operation. Neither approach is "better" in the abstract; the right one is the one that fits your nose.
What if I do not like the result?
We follow you for a full year because the result is not the result until then. If, at twelve months, something genuinely needs revision, we will say so before you do, and we will plan it. Revision rates in our practice run lower than the published literature, and the cost of a revision is not a separate operation in our pricing.
Will there be visible scarring?
With closed rhinoplasty, no — every incision is inside the nostril. With open, a small scar across the columella (the strip of skin between your nostrils) is unavoidable, but it is closed in fine layers and almost always becomes invisible at conversational distance within a year.
How soon can I fly home if I am coming from abroad?
We ask international patients to plan ten days in Istanbul. Most of that is recovery, not appointments. We see you the morning after surgery, again at five to seven days for splint removal, and once more before you fly. Long-haul flights are safe from day seven; we will write any documentation airlines need.
Can I see results from your previous patients?
Yes — the gallery on this site shows cases under explicit patient consent, and we can share additional comparable cases on request, privately. We do not publish photographs without patient permission, and we will not share other patients’ photographs by WhatsApp without first asking them.
Photographs from previous patients.
Rhinoplasty before-and-after pairs are being processed for KVKK compliance. They will appear in this section — not stock images, not ours.
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