Rhinoplasty: Q&A
Ask a QuestionIs It Unwise to Choose a Facial Plastic Surgeon with Only 3 Years Experience?
I'm wanting to get a rhinoplasty but have no facial plastic surgeons in my town. Closest one is almost 3 hours away and is double board certified by the American board of facial & reconstructive surgery, and by the American board of otolaryngology. However he is fairly new/young guy and only has 3 years experience. Is that enough? The reviews I've read on him have all been awesome but he only has a few rhinoplasty before and afters on his website. I'm assuming that's because he's so new. Advice?
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Is It Unwise to Choose a Facial Plastic Surgeon with Only 3 Years Experience?
IMHO, it's best to choose your plastic and cosmetic surgeon by his or her ability to understand and follow the proper aesthetics of facial beauty for the creation of a naturally more attractive face....technical skill alone is simply not enough.
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Choosing the right rhinoplasty surgeon for your nose
In this situation you have done a lot of the things patients should do that is check results, look at photographs and talk with the surgeon. Sometimes you can get an idea by how complex your nose is and what changes you want to make. If you are not seeking a drastically different nose or it appears relatively simple, then your nose would be considered less complicated even to a surgeon with less rhinoplasties under his belt. Also, I often tell my patients to have at least two or more...
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Choosing a Rhinoplasty Surgeon With 3 Years Experience is Not Necessarily a Bad Idea
A rhinoplasty is the most difficult of all the facial plastic surgery procedures. Because of this, experience is very important. During my residency training one of my professors told me that I wouldn't really understand how to do a rhinoplasty until I had done at least 500. At the time this didn't make sense to me, but when I hit that 500 range, things started making sense to me that hadn't made sense to me before (and because of this my rhinoplasty results got better). With that being...
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How experienced your rhinoplasty surgeon should be
Besides know how many years your surgeon has been practicing you'd probably also want to know how many rhinoplasty surgeries he has done. Being in practice for 10 years does not help much if you only do 5 rhinoplasty procedures a year, for example.
If you're still not comfortable with the amount of experience I'd suggest consulting with an additional surgeon or two. This would be beneficial even if you have to drive a little further to see them.
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Experience Needed For Rhinoplasty
Hi,
Based on your previous posts and your current one, it seems that you are not 100% of the surgeons you have met and consulted with; this is pretty normal and you do not have to make a decision if you are not ready and it is your right to consult with additional surgeons to make sure that you are making a well-informed decision.
An experience is not measured by the years of practice necessarily but by the number of successful surgeries performed, the level of developed skills a...
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Experience IS important in rhinoplasty!
Like many of my colleagues, I believe that even a double-boarded rhinoplasty surgeon needs experience before s/he knows all of the nuances of complex rhinoplasty cases. Now that I'm one of those graying, experienced plastic surgeons who has done hundreds of rhinoplasties, I can stroke my chin like the learned "expert" I am and "tut, tut" about those "young, inexperienced beginner surgeons!"
Yet, each of us was once in our third year of practice; how do you think we got all that...
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Experience with Rhinoplasty
Your surgeon is well trained and board certified. However, in previous posts you said you did not like either surgeon you saw. Maybe you should get more consultations.
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Experience counts
With rhinoplasty in particular, experience and a steady volume of rhinoplasty is paramount. In general, you are better off having rhinoplasty by a surgeon who performs > 100 rhinoplasty procedures per year and has been doing so for > 10 years. Some straightforward rhinoplasty procedures can be done quite well by a novice surgeon, but a complex one may not be.
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Unwise?
Three years in the field of Cosmetic Rhinoplasty is indeed a short time. However, this physician has made the extra efforts to become board certified (a good starting point) by both the Facial Plastic Surgeons of America and also by the Head & Neck Surgeons. You should talk frankly with this potential surgeon and express to him your deep concerns. Then, he should show you photos of his successful & not so successful cases. Also, he should truthfully reveal his...
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An Experienced Surgeon is Key in Rhinoplasty Surgery
I would make a consultation appointment with him and see how many photographs he has in his office. While I have a lot of photographs on my website I also have hundreds more in my office. Not everyone wants their photograph splashed across the internet. I would be honest and ask him his experience level, speak with some of his recent rhinoplasty patients and see if you feel comfortable with him. In my opinion experience is more important then board certification and maybe he...
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