The tip of the nose is comprised of two cartilages. If you touch the tip of your nose, you can feel two firm pieces, with a little dent in between. Those are your tip cartilages. In this rhinoplasty, the goal was to decrease the prominence of those cartilages.Especially if the skin of the nose is thin, or if the cartilages are very strong, you can see the shape of the tip cartilages, and the dent between them. In the rhinoplasty, the cartilages are modified to make a more aesthetically-pleasing tip.
As you can see in the "before" picture, a wide tip can also make the nose appear very long; this nose was shortened and a tiny hump was removed at the same time that the tip was narrowed.
You can see more photographs of this woman's rhinoplasty at FacialSurgery.com here. The site has over 1,000 photos of Dr. Denenberg's rhinoplasty patients.
You can also see pictures taken during surgery, to show the tip cartilages, here: careful, this section of FacialSurgery.com contains explicit photos!
