Rhinoplasty Before & After Photos
January 13th, 2011
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| Patient is a 34 year old latino/hispanic woman who was interested in improving the deviation/crookedness in her nose as well as refining her nasal tip. Patient also wanted a more feminine profile. Dr. Sam Rizk has specialized techniques for ethnic rhinoplasty to achieve a natural and defined nose. This rhinoplasty patient underwent open rhinoplasty with grafts placed in her mid-nasal vault to make her nose appear straighter and grafts in the tip to define and support/lift the tip slightly and make the nose appear more feminine. | |
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March 8th, 2011 at 11:01 AM
what an absolutely beautiful result! I love how smooth the sides of this patient’s dorsum is on frontal view. Does Dr Rizk use his micropowered instruments to do this type of “smoothing” on the sides of the dorsum?
March 10th, 2011 at 3:30 PM
The micro-powered diamond sander is used both on the dorsum and the grafts. The reason it works well is two-fold:
1. The dorsum has both bone and cartilage which it works on both, particularly the connecting part in the middle of the bridge. The old technique requires a rasp for bone and a knife for cartilage-resulting in a disconnected connecting segment.
2. The cartilage grafts tend to have sharp edges if sculpted with the knife, and that does not occur with Dr. Rizk’s specialized sanding-powered tools.