martes, 10 de noviembre de 2015

Hispanic or Latino Rhinoplasty in NYC


"Hispanic" or “Latino” often refers to people with Spanish, Portuguese, South and Central American heritage, as well as some Caribbean countries such as Puerto Rico, Cuba, Costa Rica and The Dominican Republic.
There are three categories that are used to differentiate between Hispanic noses:
  • Mestizo nose: a mix of European and native Indian-American elements. This nose is usually broad based, with a wider tip and has quite a thick skin. This is the most difficult nose from all three types of noses in terms of improving its appearance by surgery. The surgeon has to graft the patient’s dorsum of the nose, then extend the tip graft and revise the nose tip.
  • Castillian nose: a Spanish nose (originally from Spain, as well as some Caucasian noses) has a high bridge and normal tip projecting. This type of nose is often corrected by performing dorsal reduction and tip revision.
  • Mexican-American nose: a mixture of the Mestizo nose and Castilian nose. This type of nose usually has a low radix (root of the nose) with a normal bridge and drooping tip definition. This type of nose surgery requires grafting of the radix or the dorsum and a tip revision with a columellar graft.

Spanish Nose Job Surgery

From these three categories, the Mestizo nose and the Mexican-American nose require a highly skilled surgeon to perform surgery on them. Dr. Sam Rizk, a double board certified facial plastic surgeon from New York who performed many nose surgeries on Hispanic and Latin American patients, does not believe in the "one nose fits all" idea. Instead, he believes in revealing every person’s uniqueness which should be manifested while performing a rhinoplasty surgery, adjusting the tools and techniques used to each individual to achieve an overall harmonious look.
NOTE: ALL THE IMAGES USED ON THIS PAGE ARE ACTUAL PATIENTS THAT DR. RIZK PERFORMED RHINOPLASTY ON WITH APPROVED CONSENT.
What are ethnic features of a Latino nose?
Latino/ Hispanic noses have a significant amount of interethnic variability and surgical approaches need to be customized to create a natural nose that is in harmony with the individual Latino face. However, in general, the Latino nose is wider than the white nose but narrower than the African nose. Latino noses also have thicker skin, a more bulbous tip and wider nostrils than a white nose. The Latino noses tend to have weak soft cartilages in the nasal tip and a tip droop. These features necessitate the cartilage graft use in Latino tips to achieve superior levels of refinement and support. These drooping and ill-defined tips require strong cartilage grafts to define and lift them. Dr. Sam Rizk has pioneered new methods to sculpt nasal cartilage grafts and implants using powered smoothing technology to achieve much smoother edges than with the regular surgical knife.



(Source: rhinoplastyonline.com)
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