Ethnic Factors in Rhinoplasty

• Monday March 6, 2006 in: Rhinoplasty Tag(s):

  DECIDING on undergoing a rhinoplasty or nose job isn't as easy as going to the dentist for a checkup or a root canal.

  There are other factors to consider such as the patient's ethnic appearance.

  Race had always been a delicate issue and plastic surgeons often have to deal with this during their consultations with rhinoplasty patients who may want to look like someone else of a different ethnic race.

  This aspect is particularly interesting in light of reports that cosmetic surgery is fast becoming popular among ethnic groups in the US and other parts of the Western world.

  As a rule plastic surgeons should offer the actual picture to patients on what a nose job can actually do for them which is NOT necessarily to make them look like their favorite stars of whatever ethic background.

  Thus a white guy-okay, Caucasian--cannot hope to have a nose like Will Smith or an Asian girl cannot expect to have a nose like Julia Roberts or Keira Knightley.

  Hard to digest and not a few people would especially take umbrage or offense at this but that is the reality that plastic surgeons who take pride in their professionalism present to their patients.

  These plastic surgeons would explain to prospective patients that rhinoplasty surgery doesn't make them into movie stars but merely refine and eliminate whatever deformities or unpleasant features there are in one's nose to soften and make them uniform with the rest of the person's face.

  That means not having to change one's ethnic features drastically but unifying them as a whole for a more pleasant-looking, even beautiful you.

  And achieving that doesn't mean one has to be look like Michael Jackson who now appears like a major tranny and is nowhere near the shadow of his former charming, laidback self in his Jackson five and Thriller albums.

  In rhinoplasty it doesn't matter if one is black and white, as Jackson once sang; what does matter is changing one's appearance without losing one's ethnic identity.

I'm just being nosy...
... because i juststarted working with a ps who performs plastic surgery Phoenix, and I was reading a magazine in the office (you call that working? i know... just trying to familiarize myself with the industry)... anyway, Allure or Marie Claire had an article called, "erasing ethnicity." It was about this subject.
Anonymous at 9:07pm on Oct 24, 2007