{ Nose Bridge Scoop }

What is a scooped nasal bridge and what causes it?

Toronto scooped nasal bridge patients suffer from a relatively common nasal and nasal-facial aesthetic disproportion, specifically a weak or “scooped out” appearance to the bridge of the nose. The causes for a scooped or weak nasal bridge can be developmental and hereditary with undergrowth of the bone and cartilage that support the nasal bridge, or traumatic following an injury to the bridge of the nose during development, or from over resection of the bridge structures, both bone and cartilage during a previous nose job or rhinoplasty surgery.

Can I treat my scooped out nose bridge? And if so, how is it treated?

Toronto nasal scooped bridge patients can be treated at SpaMedica® Toronto Cosmetic Plastic Surgery Centre and by Dr. Stephen Mulholland, Toronto cosmetic plastic surgeon, with a variety of techniques and procedures. One of the most commonly performed procedures for a scooped bridge or weakness of the bridge is a technique pioneered, developed an popularized by Dr. Stephen Mulholland over the past seven years called an injection rhinoplasty or five minute nose job. During this procedure Dr. Stephen Mulholland, Toronto cosmetic plastic surgeon uses injectable, safe, long acting gels injected into the bridge of the nose to provide bridge strength and structure and improve nasal-facial proportion and aesthetics. The injectable rhinoplasty procedure is performed under local anesthesia. The soft tissue gel is safe, can be reversible and improves the strength of the bridge to provide improved aesthetics and also functionality in maintaining a bridge upon which glasses and sunglass wear can be supported. Insufficient bridge strength is common amongst Asian, Hispanic and some Mediterranean patients. An Injection Rhinoplasty can last up to 2 years, before having to be repeated. It is possible, depending upon the soft tissue filler used, to do Injection Rhinoplasty procedures and then, eventually, convert to a real surgical nose job.

Toronto nose bridge scoop patients can have the weakness of the bridge improved with a cosmetic rhinoplasty or nose job surgery in which tissues, such as cartilage and bone can be recruited from the hip, the rib or the outer table of the skull and surgically transferred to the bridge of the nose to provide long lasting bridge support and projection. Alternatively, during a cosmetic rhinoplasty procedure performed for Toronto nose bridge scoop patients artificial materials, such as Silastic or porous hydroxy appetite struts can be inserted under the skin of the bridge of the nose to provide strength, support and improved nasal-facial aesthetics. Dr. Stephen Mulholland, Toronto cosmetic plastic surgeon uses a highly specialized computer software program during Toronto bridge scoop patients consultations to demonstrate to the patient how the surgery is performed and what kind of nasal aesthetics and nasal-facial proportion may be achieved by augmenting the bridge of the nose with various techniques.

SpaMedica® Toronto Cosmetic Plastic Surgery Centre and Dr. Stephen Mulholland, Toronto cosmetic plastic surgeon, have been serving Toronto nose bridge scoop patients since 1997 and both are one of Toronto’s and Canada’s oldest, most recognized, experienced and reputable cosmetic plastic surgeons and cosmetic plastic surgery centres.

If I have my nose bridge scoop treated will it come back?

Injection rhinoplasty or five minute nose jobs performed on Toronto nose bridge scoop patients should have aesthetically pleasing augmented bridge results for up to two years. As the soft tissue gel dissipates on the bridge of the nose, subsequent injection bridge augmentation procedures can be performed. Cosmetic surgical rhinoplasty procedures performed to augment bridge scoops or insufficiently strong bridges can often last many years to a lifetime, depending on the substance and structure that is used to create the nasal bridge.

The cosmetic rhinoplasty surgical procedure for a scooped nasal bridge is performed under a local anesthesia or IV sedation as an outpatient and patients generally wear a cast on the bridge of the nose for one week, after which they can usually return to work.

SpaMedica® Cosmetic Plastic Surgery Centre and Dr. Stephen Mulholland, Toronto cosmetic plastic surgeon, treatments which are recommended for Toronto nose bridge scoops are:

• Cosmetic Rhinoplasty
• Nose Job Surgery
• Injection Rhinoplasty
• Five Minute Nose Job
• SpaMedica® Toronto Cosmetic Plastic Surgery Centre
• Dr. Stephen Mulholland, Toronto Cosmetic Plastic Surgeon