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01.04.2015 | Original Paper
Subjective psychic perception versus objective nasofacial measures in assessment of rhinoplasty results: A clinical report
Erschienen in: European Journal of Plastic Surgery | Ausgabe 2/2015
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Background
Rhinoplasty has become one of the main performed cosmetic surgeries. One of the main success factors for this type of surgeries is patients’ satisfaction; some of the patients are hardly satisfied with the postoperative results. Therefore, finding reliable, valid, agreeable, and effective evaluation tools for subjective and objective assessment of the rhinoplasty results is of great importance for both patients and surgeons.
Methods
Forty rhinoplasty patients were included in this work. The patients were evaluated by three methods objectively and subjectively; as patients’ and doctors’ satisfaction (subjective) and comparing that with the parameters of the ideal aesthetic nose that measured on the postoperative computer nasofacial images (objective).
Results
There was a highly significant difference between patients’ and surgeons’ satisfaction scores both pre- and postoperatively. Patients, more than 20 years old were more satisfied than the younger ones. The measured nasal parameters showed a significant difference in both the angles and ratios pre- and postoperatively.
Conclusions
Rhinoplasty is the aesthetic surgery that has the lowest satisfaction rate. Identifying good candidates to the procedure is fundamental to obtain good results. This study emphasizes the importance of using evaluative tools to subjectively and objectively assess rhinoplasty patients. The used evaluating tools appear to be internally consistent and valid brief instrument for assessing rhinoplasty patients, their aesthetic status and their surgical results.
Level of Evidence: Level IV, risk/prognostic study.