Rhinoplasty

Rhinoplasty at Renomé Clinic reshapes the nose to bring it into harmony with the face — correcting dorsal humps, bulbous or drooping tips, asymmetry, and post-traumatic deformity, with attention to preserving or improving nasal breathing. The clinic's board-certified plastic surgeons plan each case individually at consultation, discussing realistic outcomes against the patient's facial proportions. Surgery is performed under general anaesthesia, usually with an overnight stay; an external splint is worn for about a week, and the refined result emerges as swelling subsides over the following months.

Rhinoplasty is among the most technically demanding aesthetic operations: millimetre changes in bone and cartilage visibly alter the face, and the nose must continue to function as an airway. Renomé Clinic approaches it as both an aesthetic and functional procedure. **What can be corrected:** Dorsal hump reduction, tip refinement and rotation (bulbous, boxy, or drooping tips), narrowing of a wide bony pyramid via osteotomies, correction of asymmetry and post-traumatic crookedness, nostril (alar) base reduction, and septal deviation correction where breathing is impaired. **Technique:** Depending on the required changes, the surgeon uses a closed (endonasal) approach — all incisions hidden inside the nostrils — or an open approach with a small columellar incision that gives full visual control of the tip cartilages, preferred for complex tip work and revision cases. Modern structural techniques (cartilage suturing and grafting rather than aggressive resection) are favoured to keep the nose stable and natural-looking over decades. **The process:** Consultation with photo documentation and discussion of achievable changes; standard preoperative work-up; operation under general anaesthesia lasting roughly 1.5–3 hours; usually one overnight stay. Internal silicone splints (if used) are removed within the first week; the external thermoplastic splint comes off at about day 7, when most patients return to work and social life. Bruising under the eyes resolves in 10–14 days. **Result timeline:** Around 70–80% of swelling subsides in the first 6 weeks, but the tip refines slowly — the definitive result is judged at 12 months. Glasses should not rest on the nasal bridge for ~6 weeks after osteotomies; contact sport should wait 3 months. **Cost context:** At 'from 64,000 Kč' (~€2,550), rhinoplasty at a board-certified Prague clinic is priced substantially below typical Western European, UK, and US levels, which is why the procedure features prominently in Czech medical-travel demand. Renomé Clinic's published English and German pricelists and English-speaking team make the pathway straightforward for international patients.