Rhinoplasty: what does it mean

The term "rhinoplasty" identifies the set of surgical procedures aimed at recovering the shape of the nose. The purpose of rhinoplasty is to correct the bone and cartilage structure (wing and triangular cartilages) of the nose, modifying the tip and the back improving their appearance. If there is also the deviated nasal septum or the hypertrophic lower turbinates it is possible to correct them by extending the surgery to them. In this case the surgery is called rhinoseptoplasty or morphofunctional surgery of the nose. The ideal objective of nose surgery, in general, is the correction of the aesthetic defect and the eventual functional restoration, while maintaining a natural shape of the nose. To achieve this goal, nose remodeling is designed according to a precise balance between the height of the nose back, its overall length and the correct projection of the tip. In addition, the new nose is programmed considering the other facial parameters. When the surgery is on a nose never operated before we call it PRIMARY RHINOPLASTY while when we are talking about a nose operated previously, but with unsatisfactory results, we refer to it as SECONDARY RHINOPLASTY.