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I know that hydrocortisone can thin skin. So...can it make a nasal tip look less bulbous if the skin there is thick? My PS refused to give me steroid shots so I want to put some hydrocortisone creme on my tip if I knew there would be no adverse reactions....what do you think?
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If it thinned anything, it would just be the outer epidermis. I doubt it would thin anything deeper to make a difference in your tip.
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I'd be very careful about putting hydrocortisone on your face for any length of time. It can cause cortisone-induced rosacea...which, trust me, you do not want.
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Yikes...I'm picturing me as Rudolph. Guess I'll be giving that a pass.
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reminds me that I always wondered if you put skin glue inside your frontal tip and pinched it.... if that would help a wide tip look thinner.(Not that I would ever try it)
Find a doc that will give you a dilluted steroid injection, funny how some will and some wont. I wonder if they just prefer you to pay for a rhino. I also wonder if they will start using 5fu instead of steroid for noses
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I've wondered about skin glue too. Like what would happen if you folded the skin onto itself--like what would happen to the 'glue sandwich' internally folded part--would the parts folded together dissolve from no air. It's not a question I want to ask on the MMH 'ask a doctor' board though. LOL. Like I so much want to pinch the skin together beside my lateral canthal area and hold it with crazy glue and have a line there instead of this skin slop.
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Missj you could try that! Does not seem like it could cause any harm at all.
Who knows maybe it will become a staple in the beauty cabinet someday.
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LOL, volunteer ME to take the risk of trying it first. I have no idea what could happen with Super glue. mich wrote:Missj you could try that! Does not seem like it could cause any harm at all.
Who knows maybe it will become a staple in the beauty cabinet someday.
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Wouldn't it just wear off eventually and come undone from the oils in your skin etc?....I've wondered what happens to the skin they fold under in face lifts.
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Maybe. They fold the SMAS layer in the face lifts and snip off the 'excess' skin.
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But don't try it, it might not!!! Even if it didn't hold, you would end up with a big wrinkle there from the pleat and stretched skin. I knew a girl in grade school that wanted an upturned nose and she kept pushing on the tip for yrs until she had a badly deformed nose all through high sch....with the tip abruptly turning up.
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Dr said they fold it under and it makes the cheek bones more prominent. So if that is true, it's back onto the face and would make the face a little fatter there.
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They must splice the epidermis off so the part they tucked under would have a blood supply to it..
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I just read what you said. I get it now. LOL They don't fold the top layer of skin under, as I was thinking, but SMAS under.
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Is skin glue the same as super glue? My son at age 4 hit his hairline/forehead on the corner of a coffee table and they used it on him instead of stitches.I remember I was so relieved that they could use that instead of stitches.
My Dad always said I had wide nostrils because when I was a premie they kept tubes up my nose stretching them out (wonder where I got the complex huh)So he always told me growing up to pinch my nose.
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Superglue on the skin is very unpleasant, so skin glue is probably simular. I've done enough art projects to get crazy and gorilla glues on my hands. It's painful when it dries and you can feel the skin suffocating underneath it. Skin glue probably feels the same way, but since it's used to repair cuts, the unpleasant sensation is probably overshadowed by the pain of the cut itself or by the pain meds.
First you mentioned the tip, but you also mention your nostrils. I had an alar base reduction, but I really wanted to take a couple more mmm off the width. The doctor said he couldn't do anymore without making my nostrils too small to breath through. I asked him if he could take a little away from the middle of the nose to make breathing easier after reducing the base. He said he couldn't do that. :( But he did see that I could lose some more width so he recomended something called an alar cinch suture. I passed on it, because I could not logically see how it would be possible to pinch the nose width without lengthening the nose/lip ratio or the smile even if just a tiny bit.
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I too was recommende the cinch,I like that it is reversible or removable but I have not heard enough about it? Any chance you can email me a pic of your alar reduction?
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I think the outer skin glue the doctors use is super glue. mich wrote:Is skin glue the same as super glue? My son at age 4 hit his hairline/forehead on the corner of a coffee table and they used it on him instead of stitches.I remember I was so relieved that they could use that instead of stitches.
My Dad always said I had wide nostrils because when I was a premie they kept tubes up my nose stretching them out (wonder where I got the complex huh)So he always told me growing up to pinch my nose.
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Yes, but a fold next to my lateral canthal region would look better than the skin slop there IF I could fold the part needed to be lifted. Anato wrote:But don't try it, it might not!!! Even if it didn't hold, you would end up with a big wrinkle there from the pleat and stretched skin. I knew a girl in grade school that wanted an upturned nose and she kept pushing on the tip for yrs until she had a badly deformed nose all through high sch....with the tip abruptly turning up.
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Ya, I'm wondering if the skin could suffocate and get necrotic if it were folded onto itself. delilah wrote:Superglue on the skin is very unpleasant, so skin glue is probably simular. I've done enough art projects to get crazy and gorilla glues on my hands. It's painful when it dries and you can feel the skin suffocating underneath it. Skin glue probably feels the same way, but since it's used to repair cuts, the unpleasant sensation is probably overshadowed by the pain of the cut itself or by the pain meds.
First you mentioned the tip, but you also mention your nostrils. I had an alar base reduction, but I really wanted to take a couple more mmm off the width. The doctor said he couldn't do anymore without making my nostrils too small to breath through. I asked him if he could take a little away from the middle of the nose to make breathing easier after reducing the base. He said he couldn't do that. :( But he did see that I could lose some more width so he recomended something called an alar cinch suture. I passed on it, because I could not logically see how it would be possible to pinch the nose width without lengthening the nose/lip ratio or the smile even if just a tiny bit.
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