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In the post-ski-jump era, the best nose job is one that looks like no nose job at all. According to NYC plastic surgeon Steven Pearlman, MD, who specializes in revision rhinoplasty (i.e., do-overs), spreader grafts-pieces of the patient’s own cartilage he inserts into the middle third of the nose- “create a smoother curve from the brow to the tip, with no ‘drop-off’ in the middle.” For patients with very thin skin, who were previously prone to the bony-looking “shrink-wrap” effect, Pearlman also adds ultrathin grafts of cartilage or tissue taken from the temple to the tip of the nose, a trick he refers to as “carpet padding.”

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