Part 4 from Your Nose: A History of the Nose, Rhinoplasty and the Attitudes that Shape our Perception, in Five Parts (Excerpted from Dr. Adamson’s book Fabulous Faces, available on Amazon.com, and edited for our blog). Part 4: A Historical View Of Noses And The First Nose Jobs The ancients...
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Famous Noses of History
Part 3 from Your Nose: A History of the Nose, Rhinoplasty and the Attitudes that Shape our Perception, in Five Parts (Excerpted from Dr. Adamson’s book Fabulous Faces, available on Amazon.com, and edited for our blog). Part 3: Famous Noses of History: A collection of anecdotes about noses of note...
The Preoccupation With Your Nose
Your Nose: A History of the Nose, Rhinoplasty and the Attitudes that Shape our Perception, in Five Parts (Excerpted from Toronto facial plastic surgeon Dr. Adamson’s book Fabulous Faces, available on Amazon.com and edited for our blog.) Part 2: The Preoccupation With Your Nose Tell me about your nose. What...
Why Your Nose is a Sexy Beast
Your Nose: A History of the Nose, Rhinoplasty and the Attitudes that Shape Our Perception, in Five Parts (Excerpted from Dr. Adamson’s book Fabulous Faces, available on Amazon.com, and edited for our blog.) Part 1: Why Your Nose is a Sexy Beast History is full of superstition, rash judgments, and...
Should I Have a Rhinoplasty?
Rhinoplasty, or nose re-shaping, is the commonest aesthetic surgical procedure of the face. There are many reasons for this. Studies show that each of us is always scanning other people’s faces – we can scan seven faces a second, and initially we see a pattern which instantaneously tells us if...
Nasal Obstruction and Aesthetics – How Are They Related?
As facial plastic surgeons, patients frequently come to us seeking rhinoplasty to change their nasal shape. But sometimes they also come with nasal breathing problems which also need correcting. And, sometimes patients with primary breathing problems may also need their nasal appearance altered as part of the correction of...
Open or Closed – Which is the Best Rhinoplasty Approach for You?
Since 1970 when the open, or external, approach to rhinoplasty was introduced to North America, there has been an ongoing discussion (sometimes heated amongst surgeons!) about the better surgical approach. Today, the jury has pretty much made its decision. In the earliest days of rhinoplasty (the procedure to aesthetically re-shape...