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Nose Jobs are continent-wide
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- Ears, nose, throat surgery comprises many different types of surgical procedures and
spans over all age groups regardless of gender or ethnicity.
- Rhinoplasty is the third most common cosmetic procedure among both men and women.
- Total number of Rhinoplasty procedures in the United States in 1999 was 133,058.
- More than 13,100 of those procedures were performed on men.
- Many individuals of African or East Asian descent, and others with non-European looking noses,
choose to have an aesthetic Rhinoplasty.
- Although techniques and methods employed during Rhinoplasty surgeries are the same regardless of race,
there are some trends that apply to patients of certain ethnic backgrounds.
- In the 1950s, Rhinoplasty was a rite of passage for many Jewish-American Princesses.
As part of the philosophy of Jewish assimilation, Jewish-American parents who had already given up speaking
yiddish, encouraged their children to lose traits that would tend to make them stand out in
mainstream American culture: a Brooklyn accent, a "Jewish" nose.
- East Asian patients often want their noses to appear narrower.
This can be done through the use of infractures, where the nasal bones are broken and moved
in or reset to thin out the nasal area and add projection in the process.
Outfractures, where the nasal bones are broken and moved outwards,
are used to widen a too-narrow dorsum.
- East Asian patients typically seek augmentation (adding material) of the bridge of their
nose which will make the nose appear narrower as well.
- In Asia, patients typically use a variety of alloplastic implants including Gore-Tex,
Med-Por, or silicone. Due to the risks of alloplastic materials, natural materials to the
bridge of the nose, such as rib cartilage (costal cartilage) or ear cartilage (auricular cartilage)
are being used more commonly.
- Patients of African descent commonly seek narrowing of wide nostrils.
This procedure may include removing sections of the base of the nostrils or sections
of the nose where it meets the face. The tip of the nose can be restructured by removing
tiny sections of cartilage to give the nose more shape, or even adding cartilage to
provide additional structure to the nasal tip.
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