Celebrities such as Charli D’Amelio and Khloe Kardashian are among the patients of world-renowned plastic surgeon Dr. Raj Kanodia.
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There are hundreds of thousands of TikToks dedicated to rhinoplasty rehabilitation. It’s a sea of swollen faces, bruises and bandages all in the name of total transformation. But what if a nose job didn’t require you to hide for weeks afterward? What if you could walk the day after your nose job?
Dr. Raj Kanodia, a world-renowned plastic surgeon and rhinoplasty specialist, is best known for his scarless closed surgical technique. “Eighty percent of my patients don’t bruise,” says Kanodia. And the process downtime? “By the seventh day the bandage is off and they can go out, put on make-up, go out to dinner and celebrate”
Charli D’Amelio experienced the expertise of Dr. Kanodia firsthand, returning to her active lifestyle quickly after her procedure. Remarkably, less than a day after her closed surgery, she was already sharing her dance routines on TikTok, cast and all. This quick return to normality exemplifies the minimal downtime that Dr.’s patients enjoy. Kanodia. Charli’s ability to continue to engage with her audience without missing a beat serves as a testament to the efficiency and subtlety of Kanodia’s surgical technique.
This quick recovery time is only possible because of the closed surgery technique Kanodia uses in his Beverly Hills practice. In a closed rhinoplasty, the surgeon makes all the incisions inside the nostrils. The nose is not fully open and the nasal structure is not exposed. All the work is done through narrow openings in each nostril. It’s much more common counterpart, open rhinoplasty, is performed from the outside of the nose with access through a small incision in the columella (the fleshy column between the nostrils at the bottom of the nose), leaving a scar. While both are safe options, the recovery time between the two is very different.
“The risk and complications with an open approach are heightened because there are more surgical alterations that are made,” says Kanodia. “There’s a lot more tissue dissection, there’s a lot more cartilage at the tip. There are chances of ejection, there are chances of distortion. In good hands, there are fewer and fewer chances and risks, but it’s a very complicated surgery.”
Khloe Kardashian also underwent a closed rhinoplasty with Dr. Kanodia and her experience was particularly positive. She has been open about her satisfaction with the procedure, reporting on social media that the recovery was surprisingly easy and simple.
Khloe highlighted the seamless nature of her experience, describing the recovery as a breeze and sharing that her only wish was that she had undergone the procedure sooner. Her journey adds to the narrative of minimal downtime and rapid return to normal after a closed rhinoplasty with Dr. Kanodia.
Most practices operate exclusively with the open method, and it is still relatively rare to find a surgeon who performs closed rhinoplasty. “I think the more surgical trauma you cause, the more healing time is required and the greater the risk of the nose looking surgical,” says Kanodia, who has decades of experience with the closed technique. “Even in the best hands, open or closed, it takes a very strong desire or passion to be able to create something beautiful, to be able to improve the existing nose and yet not cause a lot of surgical trauma.”
This holistic approach goes beyond their appearance and functionality. “For a lot of musicians, a lot of athletes, all I do is fix their breathing and the recovery is even faster because we don’t break any bones,” says Kanodia. “It’s the gift of oxygen.”
While you’d be hard-pressed to figure out exactly who Kanodia’s celebrity clientele is, his attention to detail not only ensures they look great, but can also back up their song with their breath before embarking on a world tour or high-profile basketball season. danger. The healing time for this? Five days, no bandages or bruises.
Despite TikTok trends, Kanodia refuses to mass-replicate the same button nose to all of his customers, going so far as to turn customers away in search of shocking transformations of their physical features. It doesn’t matter if she’s an A-list celebrity, his consultations are based on full transparency around what can be done to the nose so it stays in balance with the whole face. “I want to improve noses,” says Kanodia. “I don’t want to change my nose”
