subject: Best Rhinoplasty Nose Job Surgery In San Francisco Bay Area [print this page] Hi, I'm DrHi, I'm Dr. Corey Maas, a board certified facial plastic surgeon in San Francisco and an associate clinical professor at the University of California San Francisco. I have a particular interest in our Maas Clinic that is focused on aesthetic surgery of the breast, body and face and my area is the face. Bay Area rhinoplasty, also known as a nose job, makes up about forty percent of my patients and in fact, about half of those patients are revision rhinoplasty or correcting some small irregularities that have occurred in previous surgeries for patients.
I want to talk to you just a little bit about how we do rhinoplasty in San Francisco and how we can get really nice results for people. The first and most important thing about rhinoplasty is that noses are very personal things. I don't begin to believe that I can tell people how their noses should look. Some people want to retain their ethnic features, some want to have a little bit of a bump on their nose, some people want to have greater width. So within a series of parameters that we know are the ideal aesthetic, we work with the patient for their individual concerns and needs and are able to achieve with a high degree of success, an outcome that gives them balanced facial features that they are very pleased with... retaining their ethnicity, retaining the features that they would like to keep about their nose.
So in general with San Francisco rhinoplasty, there are a couple of approaches described as endonasal and external or open rhinoplasty approaches. It's very individual for patients as to which approach is taken. In general, most of the incisions for both of these procedures are done through the inside of the nose so there is nothing to be seen on the outside. The only incision made with an external approach is a tiny little 'w' incision across the columella and this gives us access to the paired lower lateral cartilages that supply support to the tip of the nose, the nasal septum which divides the nose into the two compartments and the nasal bones that lie up above and they are fused. When we are adjusting the nose, we're simply getting that exposure, adjusting the septum and the tip cartilages that I described and again through the inside of the nose, making little incisions through the bone if necessary to reduce the height or width of the nose in general.
These procedures are done as an outpatient. They are something you can do with a minimum of anesthesia so that people feel pretty well when they wake up. There is typically very little discomfort after a nose job procedure. Patients are a little stuffy afterward and in general, people are back and doing their normal social functioning things within a couple weeks after the nose surgery.
