Or they may want a bend straightened, or a hump removed. They may want the nose to conform more closely to Western beauty standards. Some forms of nose surgery got a bad name years ago when surgeons tried to alter noses too much. The repairs were unnatural and de-stabilized the nose, leading to collapse and further surgery. The nose is not a lump of clay that you can shape like you want.
Every nose has a structural component, and every nose has a potential for what it can be.
What surgeons can do safely is reshape and remodel. Naficy tells his patients that their goal, in fact, ought to be to make their nose as unobtrusive as possible. Studies that used high-tech equipment to monitor vision have shown that when people look at another person's face, they gaze 95 percent of the time on either the person's eyes or mouth. They also seem to notice prominent chins and cheeks. But people glance over features like the forehead, ears or nose.