A nose job surgeon must know psychology as well as surgery It is important for a nose job surgeon to understand the psychological issues surrounding the desire for cosmetic surgery, in order to be sure that the patient will truly benefit from that surgery. Hundreds of...
Responding to a nasal injury Usually, when a nose job or rhinoplasty is performed, it’s just to make the patient look better. The nose in question works perfectly well, but is a little too big, has kind of a hump in it, or has a tip that points the wrong way. But...
Wanting a nose that looks more male or female Usually, when someone wants rhinoplasty they just want their nose to look better — a little bit smaller, straighter in the bridge, fully symmetrical. But sometimes the purpose of a nose job is to make the nose look more...
Brenda and the small improvement (The following are dramatizations.) Brenda was fifteen years old and had always thought of herself as looking ordinary. Not beautiful, not ugly, just… not standing out in a crowd. Which in some ways felt worse than being ugly. One day,...
Nose jobs accepted, popular Every year more than a hundred thousand people get nose jobs, and most of them are happy with the results. According to a study in JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery, only about one in thirty nose jobs need revision, and according to the Web site...
