Ideal Nasal Tip Rotation and Projection Values According to Rhinoplasty Candidates’ Requests

Objective: To detect ideal nasal tip rotation and projection values according to rhinoplasty candidates’ requests. Methods: Patients admitted to a tertiary hospital for rhinoplasty between January 1, 2018, and January 1, 2020, were included in the present study. Profile pictures of 100 patients whose desired nose shape was obtained through the Adobe Photoshop software were examined. Patients who had maxillary and mandibula-induced pathologies causing malocclusion were excluded from the study. Those who were under the age of 18 or who had been operated before were also excluded. Based on the request of rhinoplasty candidates, nasolabial angle, angle so-called nasal tip rotation angle, Goode score, Crumley 1 and Crumley 2 measurements were performed on profile pictures. Results: Fifty-two of the study participants were female, while 48 were men. There was no age-related difference in terms of nasolabial angle, nasal rotation angle, Goode score, Crumley 1, and Crumley 2 scores in men or women (P > .05). However, the differences between men and women were significant in all measurements except for Crumley 1 score (P < .05). No correlation was found between the nasal tip rotation angle that we used for the first time for the measurement of nasal tip rotation and the nasolabial angle. Conclusion: Ideal nasal tip rotation and projection according to the patients’ requests was studied in Turkish society first time in the present study. We believe that the nasal tip rotation angle that we have developed to measure the nasal tip rotation is reliable from a nasolabial point of view