Category: rhinoplasty

The Risk of Revisional Surgery in Rhinoplasty

Rhinoplasty is well known to be a challenging aesthetic facial procedure. The interactions of the numerous nasal parts and the healing process do not always make for a completely predictable result. The skin of the nose is the one anatomic element that the plastic surgeon can not change and it can frequently lead to undesireable Read More…

Profileplasty by Rhinoplasty and Sliding Genioplasty

While one does not see their face in a profile view naturally (only in pictures), the world sees your face in three-quarter view or in profile. Thus the perception of one’s own facial profile is important and it is stressed in many plastic surgery procedures. The two most important hard structures that make up the Read More…

Case Study: Rhinoplasty Reduction of the Long Overprojected Nose

Background: The nose presents a very wide array of problems for reshaping by rhinoplasty surgery. There are nearly a dozen different pieces of anatomy to the nose and how they arranged and their size is what creates the diversity of the shape problems seen. But there are a handful of common problems that the rhinoplasty surgeon Read More…

Safe Techniques in Injectable Rhinoplasty

Unlike many other facial plastic surgery procedures, there are few non-surgical alternatives to rhinoplasty surgery. The only way to make permanent nose shape changes is to alter the underlying bone and cartilage framework. Such alterations ultimately get reflected on the outside as the nasal skin adapts. The only non-surgical treatment option to help change the Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Original Nosejob

The desire to change or make up a new nose has been around for a long time. The first recorded nose job is written in the ancient Indian Sanskrit texts around 600 BC. Doctor would reconstruct noses by taking a strip of skin from the forehead or cheeks, twisting the skin side over a Read More…

The Uniqueness of Male Plastic Surgery – Facial Procedures

The facial aging process is one that is well known as everyone will eventually see it on their face. The eyes get heavy, the brows descend, the cheek fall, jowls develop and the neck sags. Women become concerned earlier in the aging process and proceed to do procedures to treat or slow it down in Read More…

Case Study: Rhinoplasty for the Boxy Tip

Background: The shape of the nose is determined almost exclusively by the size and shape of the underlying framework support of bone and cartilages. The greatest anatomic influence of structure is seen in that of the nasal tip where the lower alar cartilages create a unique shape for each person. The size of these cartilages Read More…

The Benefits of Rhinoplasty Surgery

A news story from today from the LA times reports that a former Nickelodean star, Amanda Bynes, had admitted to having a rhinoplasty and is very pleased with the results. The purpose of the story is that she has made it clear that she wants all news outlets and media to only use new Read More…

Case Study: The Use of Rib Grafts in Revisional African-American Rhinoplasty

Background: Rhinoplasty in the non-caucasian ethnic nose poses different challenges than many typical rhinoplasty procedures. The goal of making a more defined and less wide nose requires a major change in the cartilage construct of the nose. Increasing the height of the bridge and the tip requires a considerable push from beneath to lift often Read More…

Case Study: Rhinoplasty for the Bigger Older Nose

Background: There are a wide variety of reasons why people seek out a primary or initial rhinoplasty. Since patients don’t usually know the names of the nasal anatomy or the terminology of the rhinoplasty surgeon, they have to describe their concerns in layman’s terms. Concerns such as a ‘big hump’, ‘fat tip’, or ‘bulbous nose’ Read More…