History of rhinoplasty

Rhinoplasty was first developed in India 2600 years ago. As a punishment for the crimes they used to amputate noses of criminals. To reconstruct noses surgeons used techniques of forehead flap rhinoplasty, also known as Hindu-method.

The first intranasal rhinoplasty for aesthetic purposes was used by Jacques Joseph in 1904.

His first patient was a young man whose large nose caused him a big embarrassment.

One of Joseph’s apprentice Gustav Aufricht, after moving to U.S. together with his followers improved standards of ideal shape of human nose. Though, nowadays surgeons have a sceptic opinion about Aufricht’s noses: they looked too small and unnatural.


Hollywood actress after the surgery performed by Gustav Aufricht.

In 1971 J. R. Anderson published his works about open rhinoplasty method and made it popular in surgeons all over the world. Nowadays this method is used more frequently than closed method.

In open rhynoplasty, an additional inconspicuous incision is made across the columella, the pole of skin that separates the nostrils, that gives the possibility to reshape nose under the visual control. The post-operation scar is almost unseen.

 

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