Dr. Shervin NaderiFacial Plastic Surgeon specializing in Rhinoplasty & Anti-aging as well as Facial Balancing Botox & Filler Injections

The Ideal Candidate for Rhinoplasty by Chevy Chase MD Rhinoplasty Expert

4 Jun 2009 · 1 min

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Dr. Shervin Naderi (speaker) describes clinical criteria for the ideal rhinoplasty candidate: typically age 16 or older (with exceptions down to 14 if physical growth and maturity are sufficient), medically healthy, psychologically stable, and holding realistic expectations — seeking improvement of the nose itself rather than major lifestyle or social-change outcomes.

Questions this video answers

16 years old (typical minimum).

As young as 14 years old (with exceptions).

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An ideal candidate for rhinoplasty is anybody over the age of 16, although with certain exceptions, you can go as young as 14. If the patient shows level of maturity and physical growth, that's completed. But typically after age 16, somebody who's medically healthy, psychologically stable, has realistic goals and wants to improve the nose, just to improve the nose, not expecting any major changes in lifestyle or social status, that's somebody who's going to have a fantastic result, will undergo rhinoplasty and will move on with their life.