How Much Nostril Narrowing and Mouth Widening Can Be Achieved?

Q: Dr. Eppley, Now taking another look at the morph of nostril narrowing and mouth widening, im thinking the change is quite conservative. Would it be possible to exceed those in both of the procedures?

A: The purpose of predictive imaging is to show patients realistic results and only show what I believe can be expected from the surgery. While more significant changes can be surgically done the risk of adverse/hypertrophic scarring escalates considerably.

There is a good guideline to remember about certain aesthetic procedures….it is better to have 2/3s of what you want with no complications than 100% of what you want with them. In this surgery scarring is the problem around the nostrils and the mouth corners in particular they can be very difficult to improve.

Dr. Barry Eppley

World-Renowned Plastic Surgeon