Dr. Sam Rizk has been chosen as a Top Facial Plastic Surgeon and Rhinoplasty Specialist by Castle Connolly, the #1 Organization which selects Top Physicians in every field based on recommendations by their peers. Dr. Rizk has also published his original techniques in many plastic surgery journals, which requires peer review by other plastic surgeons to deem it original and worthy of publication. Dr. Rizk is often selected by doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals to do their plastic surgery.
PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT:
Dr. Rizk's philosophy is a natural, balanced rhinoplasty in harmony with the rest of the facial features. This may sometimes mean a dramatically smaller nose if you are starting with a disproportionately large nose, or it may be a very subtle result. Some of Dr. Rizk's results are dramatic, others more subtle. Dr. Rizk also usually repairs the septum and shrinks the turbinates if they are blocking patient's breathing preoperatively. Patients usually breathe better after the procedure and if you look at most of his revision cases on the main website and blog, he actually builds collapsed and pinched areas to improve breathing with grafts. Additionally, he uses cartilage- conserving and grafting to achieve smaller and more proportionate noses in primary and revision rhinoplasty, which actually makes the nose structurally stronger over a person's lifetime. HE REMOVES very LITTLE cartilage, even in very bulbous tips, to achieve this definition. Additionally, his 3-D endoscopic techniques, is not just used to decrease swelling and bruising postoperatively. It also achieves a more precise long-term result. Furthermore, by decreasing swelling, you also decrease scar tissue formation, which improves overall long-term results.
Dr. Rizk's rhinoplasty approach emphasizes a strong nasal framework and structure to ensure LONGEVITY of an excellent FUNCTIONAL and COSMETIC outcome. Vital to the above philosophy is the use of grafts to support a structurally weak nose or a nose which becomes weak after a reduction. Dr. Rizk prefers to use the patient's own cartilage for grafting, whether from the septum, ears, or costal cartilage rather than foreign implants. Occasionally, if no cartilage is available for grafting, Dr. Rizk will use a synthetic implant. Dr. Rizk spends a great deal of time sculpting these grafts with a special instrument he pioneered to give the most natural and soft result. These supportive cartilage grafts prevent scar contracture over the nose's lifetime and diminishes the need for revision rhinoplasty.
Revision Rhinoplasty Before & After Photos
July 2nd, 2010
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| 25yo female with a severe rhinoplasty deformity from a previous rhinoplasty with both a floating bone open roof problem as well as tip bulbosity. Patient actually has attachment of bone into thin skin in dorsum. Patient is shown 5 months after revision rhinoplasty. | |
Revision Rhinoplasty Before & After Photos
May 6th, 2010
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| 25 year old female complains about her tip as too boxy. Patient has separation of her lower tip cartilages and a saddle above her tip. This was corrected with cartilage grafts obtained from patient’s septum and suture techniques were used to make tip cartilages narrower. | |
FOX 5 National – Revision Rhinoplasty Plastic Surgery Nightmares
March 5th, 2010
Plastic surgery does not always go the way it should. Unfortunately, very often the outcomes of plastic surgery do not meet the expectations of many patients. With revision rhinoplasty, sometimes a surgical mistake or poor healing can result in a bad outcome requiring revision rhinoplasty.
Dr. Sam Rizk is a double board certified top facial plastic surgeon in New York who does revision rhinoplasty. In one of the cases shown on the FOX National News segment about Plastic Surgery Nightmares, Dr. Rizk helps correct multiple areas of the patient’s nose, damaged by previous plastic surgeries. After the reconstructive operation, the patient’s nose looks straighter, more defined, and has improved breathing capability.
Revision Rhinoplasty Before & After Photos
March 4th, 2010
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| 25 year old female who underwent rhinoplasty 8 years ago and was very dissatisfied with her nose. Her preoperative pictures shows the typical stigma associated with an overreduced rhinoplasty. Preoperative pictures shows the following deformities from the profile: Scooped out saddled cartilage bridge and a bony bump, overprojected tip with a hanging columella, pointy tip on the right. Preoperative picture from the front view shows the following deformities: open roof deformity near the bony top part of nose, inverted v deformity in the cartilage part of nose, pointy tip on right, and hanging columella. Postoperative pictures are shown after rhinoplasty with the use of septal cartilage graft. Additionally, patient could not breathe preoperatively secondary to a deviated septum and could breathe after that was fixed at the same time. | |
Rhinoplasty Before & After Photos
January 22nd, 2010
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| 31 yo old male Indian doctor who underwent previous rhinoplasty in Beverly Hills who is dissatisfied with his lack of definition and his scooped feminized nose. Patient is shown only 1 week after revision rhinoplasty with multiple sculpted grafts in his tip and bridge to masculinize his nose and successfully define it despite having very thick skin with underlying scar tissue. Additionally, the nostrils were asymmetric and were adjusted. Patient is still swollen as he is shown only 1 week after surgery. | |
Rhinoplasty Before & After Photos
January 13th, 2010
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| 19 year old male with history of previous nasal injury and previous rhinoplasty complains of a crooked nose and a nasal bump as well as difficulty breathing. Patient is shown 1 week after endonasal septorhinoplasty with spreader and camouflage cartilage grafts on the left side to correct collapse in the cartilaginous middle part of the nose. Patient is noted to have minimal bruising after cast removal. | |
Rhinoplasty Before & After Photos
November 30th, 2009
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| 48 year old female with previous history of rhinoplasty unhappy with her front view irregularities and areas of collapse (worse on right side) and inability to breathe. Patient shown after revision rhinoplasty using septal and auricular cartilage grafts to correct multiple areas of deformities and collapses. Both spreader and alar batton grafts were needed as well as dorsal onlay grafts. Graft edges were smoothed using Dr. Rizk’s new graft sculpting technology. Only front pictures are shown as there was mainly front changes only. | |
Rhinoplasty Before & After Photos
November 12th, 2009
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| 27 year old Asian female who had a previous rhinoplasty with silicone implant which became infected and extruded through her tip and also became crooked. Patient underwent revision rhinoplasty with Dr. Rizk to remove silicone implant and Dr. Rizk used cartilage from inside her nose to lengthen her nose and define her tip. | |
Rhinoplasty Before & After Photos
November 6th, 2009
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| 45 year old male who underwent revision rhinoplasty to fix his asymmetric pinched tip as well as saddle nose deformity. Patient had multiple collapsed areas in his nose corrected with cartilage grafts from his septum as well as rib cartilage. | |
Rhinoplasty Before & After Photos
October 28th, 2009
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| 35 yo female South American/Latino patient who underwent revision rhinoplasty to straighten the nose as well as remove the bump (actually we call this a pollybeak because it is mostly cartilage). The bony bump was overresected and the cartilage bump was underresected. Patient is shown at 1.5 years postoperatively. | |
