Last week, I completed the 4th and 5th videotaped surgical procedures for Volume 3 of my DVD series. Live surgery is always an experience. I have performed live surgery at many symposia and watched many other surgeons do the same, and it is uniquely taxing because the surgeon wants to do just as good a […]
Read MoreJust this week I saw a very nice patient whom I had seen in 2006 and again in 2011. At that time, she had already had multiple nasal surgeries, the previous two by a superb surgeon. Her nose was straight and worked well. But she wasn’t happy. Her descriptions were filled with disaster language: every […]
Read MoreThis is a sad complaint that I hear from many patients who have had rhinoplasties. Too drastic a change is one of the things that patients fear most before surgery. Just recently I received two emails from patients who have undergone surgery in the last month and feel that the change was just intolerable. They […]
Read MoreThere are many ways to correct crooked noses, and some of the published results are very dramatic. But like stock market investments, the bigger the potential gains, the bigger the risks. For example, some surgeons completely remove the deviated septum, taking out all the support for the lower two thirds of the nose, straighten the […]
Read MoreOne of the most common complaints patients have after rhinoplasty is a new runny nose (rhinitis). If it existed before surgery, rhinitis can indicate allergies. When it appears only after surgery, it’s not allergies. There are two common causes. The more common one is a new airway obstruction. When the surgeon reduces the height of […]
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