Question: I’m Korean and interested in getting a nose job. Is there a difference in what would look good for me vs. someone who is Chinese or Japanese or Malaysian?

Answer: Since everyone’s nose is different and everyone’s face is different, we need to highly customize a rhinoplasty so that we create a nose that has good harmony with the remainder of the patient’s face.  With that said, there are obviously differences between different ethnic groups around the planet and, therefore, we are going to treat their noses slightly differently, but overall there is a universal agreement with beauty whether it be in an Asian culture, European culture, African culture, or American culture.  We all have a relative standard for what is considered beautiful, so creating a more proportionate and symmetric nose that has better harmony with the remainder of the face is a universal desire with rhinoplasty.  I really feel that computer-generated imaging is helpful in virtually all cases so that we can assess a patient’s nose, make changes to it on a computer, and assure ourselves that we are going to create a nose that enhances the patient’s overall facial aesthetics as well as satisfies their desires.

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Question: I am a 32-year-old man interested in having a chin implant. Do you have any way of showing me how I could look with different shapes and sizes of implants?

Answer: I can certainly do computer-generated imaging to show you the overall look of a chin implant, but I really cannot make it horribly realistic simply due to the limitations of the software.  You will get the overall idea of how a chin implant can change the overall harmony of a person’s face and improve their appearance.

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Question: Is computer imaging always used during a consultation for rhinoplasty and what does it do?

Answer: I, personally, always use computer-generated imaging for my rhinoplasty patients since I feel that it has several benefits, one being that I can perform a virtual rhinoplasty on the patient to make sure that the techniques that I plan on employing will give us the result that they desire. The second is that the patient can actually see the planned result on their own face and give it a stamp of approval, so to speak, before surgery is performed. If patients are happy with the computer-generated image that I create then they have about a 95% chance of being happy with the end result from their surgical procedure.

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Question: Does your office have digital imaging capabilities? I would like a chin implant but do not know what shape I want.

Answer: Yes, I am able to digitally morph your photo to show you from a side view what your chin would look like with a chin implant and then depending on your chin size and shape will determine what kind or shape of implant is recommended and obviously we also take into account whether you are a male or a female as males would desire a more block like or squared off chin and females would like a more feminine, smooth, or pointed chin.

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Question: How do you ensure that a nose still looks right with the person’s face when performing rhinoplasty?

Answer: I personally like to perform computer-generated imaging so that we do end up creating a nose that has harmony with the remainder of the patient’s face and I also like the patient to see the expected outcome so that they can give a stamp of approval to the result before we go to surgery. With that being said, in 95% of the cases we end up getting a result that is close enough to the computer-generated image that we are all quite happy with the outcome. Ultimately, the goal of a rhinoplasty is simply to create a nose that has harmony with the remainder of the face and therefore becomes unnoticeable.

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