Book Review: Revision Rhinoplasty

Abstract

Daniel Becker, Stephen Park, editors. Revision Rhinoplasty. Thieme; 2007. ISBN-10: 1588904962, ISBN-13: 978-158890 4966 Revision Rhinoplasty by Drs Becker and Park is a compilation of the vast experience of many surgeons. The book is divided into sections covering all revision rhinoplasty problems, including failure to analyze properly, psychological aspects, and specific treatment modalities for the well-known complications of rhinoplasty (such as nostril stenosis, septal perforation, pinched tip, and crooked nose). Discussions, reviews, and written and video material are sorely needed to help surgeons deal with rhinoplasty, which is arguably the most difficult operation in all of aesthetic surgery. The authors are to be commended for taking on the challenge and none too soon. As a matter of language clarity, however, it would be good to distinguish between revision rhinoplasty and secondary rhinoplasty. Most of us use the term revision to refer to reoperation on our own cases. This distinguishes these procedures from secondary rhinoplasty cases, in which we revise another surgeon’s postoperative result. To the credit of the authors of the “Complications in Rhinoplasty” chapter, I noted that they did not refer to postoperative deformities (eg, pinched tip) as complications of rhinoplasty. An unsatisfactory aesthetic result following rhinoplasty is not necessarily (and not usually) a complication. It is the nature of rhinoplasty that …