What is the youngest age a rhinoplasty patient should be?
Posted December 22, 2009 12:02 pm by Dr. Andrew Campbell in Rhinoplasty
That is a little bit of a trick question due to the fact that if it is strictly a cosmetic rhinoplasty, the answer would be the age at which the patient stops growing. In young women, it is typically around the age of 15 and in young men, it is typically at age 17 to 18. If a child has had a very significant congenital malformation of the nose or has had very significant trauma to the nose with resulting deformity, a minor rhinoplasty may be performed at almost any age, even as young as a toddler. A more definitive rhinoplasty is usually then performed in that same child once they reach the age where they stop growing.
