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Cephalometric and morphometric studies show that the bony part of the upper nose reaches near-adult dimensions before puberty; by about 10 years further increases are minimal, and subsequent nasal growth is largely cartilaginous or soft-tissue. Farkas et al. found nasal width already >80 % of adult size in early childhood and essentially complete by the end of the first decade, with later changes occurring mainly in cartilage and soft tissues rather than in the nasal bones themselves [Farkas 1992, PMID 1643060].