I'm about to start training and sparring, and hope to eventually go in a few local amateur fights. We have to wear headgear, but I don't see how headgear will keep you from getting a broken nose in any way, that part of your face isn't covered.

I'm curious to find out- if you have gotten your nose broken in boxing, is there a reasonable chance of it healing so that it doesn't look abnormal at all? Is it bone or cartilage that gets broken in most cases?

Where I work, 2 of the girls in the office have had broken noses from sports injuries. They have "bumps" about 1/2 way down the tip of their noses in the middle. Their noses are wider there then in the other part of the length of their nose. Not glaringly obvious, but if you look you can see it. I don't want to end up like that from boxing.

I wonder if this is a typical or unusual result of a broken nose that would require surgery to get it back to looking normal again afterwards.