Naissance de la rhinoplastie en Occident. Part I : textes fondateurs et vrais précurseurs

Abstract

The birth of rhinoplasty in the West was driven by a great demand for reconstruction of noses destroyed voluntarily or not, post-traumatic or medical. Two men emerge strongly through their work and writings: Gaspare Tagliacozzi for the brachial flap and Joseph Carpue for the frontal flap. Both of them describe a different method but based on the same skin flap principles. But were they really the first? History tells us that other, more anonymous people before them had used these same methods on a large scale but without leaving any conclusive or very significant written trace. The use of flaps or grafts, methods, which are the true pillars of plastic surgery, opened up perspectives much wider than the nose. But history has retained the name of these two men through their writings. If they were not the precursors, they were nevertheless promoters, laying the foundations of modern plastic surgery and promoting the spread of these great principles throughout the world.