Overall the description of the Asian nose is one of
petiteness and flatness. Asian clients seeking rhinoplasty therefore not
surprisingly request for higher radixes and dorsums with more tip projection
and narrower alar bases. The contemporary trend is to request for augmentation
and tip projection whilst retaining their Asian ethnicity.
In a small sample study by the authors at The
Chinese University of Hong Kong, nasal pictures of Chinese male and female
individuals were evaluated to determine their aesthetic outcomes. These
subjects with a group of independent local Chinese male and female judge
observers, were requested to freely simulate with computer software, the nose
they would wish to have. There was notable agreement and concordance on the
final nasal profile simulated i.e. everyone had the same aesthetic endpoint.
What this sample work demonstrated was, whilst all these Asian clients and peer
judges preferred higher radixes and dorsums with greater tip projection, the
measured parameters differed significantly from accepted Western aesthetic
references (see Figure 1 - Graph of Asian aesthetics). This suggested that even
though Asian individuals wanted a pointier and higher nose, they wanted to
retain their "Asian" sense of aesthetics.
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