Abstract
Plastic surgery is based on improving esthetic for the patient. In most services, the surgery outcome is evaluated in a subjective manner. Aimto objectively assess the degree of patient satisfaction one year after rhinoplasty using the Rhinoplasty Outcome Evaluation questionnaire at a referral academic center. Materials and Methods69 patients operated in the otorhinolaryngology service were selected. The patients were operated upon by third year residents during the period from January to December 2007 and answered the questionnaire translated by the authors of this study. Resultswe obtained a mean value of 73.25% of satisfaction for primary rhinoplasty and a mean value of 72.02% of satisfaction for secondary rhinoplasty. Conclusionthe level of satisfaction presented by the patients was considered to be very good.
Highlights
We took off the study those patients who, besides rhinoplasty were submitted to other associated procedures, as well as those operated by professors and assistant physicians
Concerning the degree of satisfaction with the surgery as far as cosmetics and respiratory functions were concerned, on the ROE scale the mean value was 73.25% of satisfaction, varying between 25 and 100%, for primary rhinoplasty and 72.02% varying between 45.83 and 91.67%
In an attempt to compare our results to those described in the literature from reference academic center we find only those from Hellings & Trenité (2007)[11]
Summary
5. Is your nose closer to perfection?; 6. Would you like to surgically correct your nose’s function or looks?. Each one of the questionnaire questions has five answers ranked from 0 to 4, whereas 0 means the most negative answer and 4 the most positive one. In order to reach the final result of the scale, one must add up the scores from each questionnaire and divide it by 24. We have an interval value from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the unhappiest patient and 100 the most pleased of them
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