Posted by: Slufix93

https://www.rhinoplastyinseattle.com/service/seattle-plastic-surgery-treatments/rhinoplasty-treatments/low-radix-augmentation

Is a low radix related to the maxilla position, or it is genetic ? 

Possibly. I have one. Maybe upward movement pushes the nose upwards too creating a higher rooted nose. 

The thing is, from what I've seen, the upper bone part of the nose doesn't even belong to the maxilla? That's where my question comes from, because I saw a lot of people saying that a "crooked" nose often comes from a recessed maxilla, but I have the impression that the upper part of the nose doesn't even belong to the maxilla.

This is confusing. It could be an illusion. The maxilla pulls back the lower part of the nose, but imagine having the bones under your eyes, nose come forward and your nose becomes straight(er). Make it morph from your face or someone elses to make it normal, or someone who mewed their whole life. A low radix I see this in people with ancestory traced from purely from Africa(no Caribbean's). I had this buddy who has a normal maxilla...and his radix is low. In a white kid too, but his maxilla is recessed hence him looking old from his eyebags. I found out about the radix from this topic. And what I may or not be...useful? That's my take on the radix for now.

Wow - these rhinoplasty’s have little knowledge of what they’re doing.  Yikes!  Look at those awful (minus the Polynesian) nasolabial angles.  Sheesh.  A little AGGA and upswing / lift / counter-rotation of the soft tissues and these people are golden.  The reason why they’re concentrating on the radix is because cutting into the soft tissue can look weird.  Well...it sure would be better to get some forward movement.  Who knows...maybe their radix is potentially underdeveloped to norm and that won’t be a big surprise for those with inadequate bone development overall or weak bones / problems.  However...many probably just have restrictive tongue ties.  How sad.  Rhinoplasty on outer part of nose does nothing for energy level.  These poor folks.  They surely are poor now following surgical expense.   And now if they try to advance their maxillary platal arc then the nose would counter-rotate so then how do you ADD soft tissue...not sure that you can!?  These idiot rhinoplastys are just poorly informed or something.  Fix underlying problem people.  It can be done.  The big “tell” is the nasolabial angle.  If someone had a decent nasolabial angle...then next thought would be the palatal vault.  Then if the palate was too low /flat there, try to reshape it.  But if the nasolabial angle was good and palate were good (probably catches most cases for rhinoplasty) and a cephalometric analysis is good ...then by all means - chop away. I can tell you that isn’t the case for some here.  Ex. That blonde’s nasolabial angle sucks.  But after it looks better...did they move her maxilla forward or only do the nose.  The photos are skewed on this phone.

But yeah...interestingly, I will say this.  If you get forward movement primarily of just the teeth..then the palate can actually drop and this top of palate height is what supports the nose.  So, with forward movement you can actually get a drop.  It could just be temporary until your tongue reshapes the palate up over time??? But that’s the trick...hoe much to support the palate.  It’s a dance of not intruding in the nasal area too much (for heath) but not under supporting it either (for helping crook in nose).  Make sense?  There are all sorts of thing so shape this area and a lab visit with photos post has an acrylic advancement device for some palatal reshaping of this area.

I can’t see photos well.  Did they ONLY work the nose?  Some may add cheek bumps or whatever...hard to know the extent of the surgeries.

On the pictures of the link I sent, they only add a graft on the low radix.

I have a low radix, but I don't know if it's related to an underlying problem or not, if it's really related to an underlying problem like a poorly positioned maxilla, I prefer to fix the core of the problem.

I would be curious to see what the MSE+FaceMask device would does on a nose on this type. I think that currently many should refrain from rhinoplasty, genioplasty or jaw surgery if the occlusion is normal, because there seem to be new possibilities to move the maxilla upwards and forwards. The use of filler is a good temporary solution while waiting for news on these topics.