Ethnic rhinoplasty is a type of rhinoplasty that corrects certain ethnic anatomical features of certain populations, especially patients of African or Asian descent. These patients want to westernize their noses, that is, to obtain a thinner and longer nose or a more protruding nose.
Often, these patients have noses that are very different from those of patients who want to have a traditional rhinoplasty (treatment for humpback and long nose).
Most of these patients have a very different nasal anatomy that is not suitable for traditional rhinoplasty techniques.
Plastic surgery techniques in reconstructive rhinoplasty and secondary rhinoplasty have become more sophisticated and have been successfully applied to ethnic rhinoplasty to heal an enlarged nose and increase nasal projection. Ethnic rhinoplasty augmentation almost always requires cartilage grafts (ear or rib cartilage) to increase the structure of the nose. Therefore, ethnic surgery is an aesthetic procedure performed to change the appearance of the nose in order to make it thinner and longer by increasing the structure of the nose in a person of African or Asian descent.