What To Ask a Rhinoplasty Surgeon

By Dr. Jesse E. Smith, MD, FACS
Facial Plastic Surgeon

What should someone ask a rhinoplasty surgeon before committing?

Number one, how many have they done and do they do?

And that might not be putting a precise number to it. Nobody knows if they’ve done 1624 or an exact amount. But if they’re doing 1 or 2 a week, and they have been doing that for quite a while, and they have fairly good before and after photos, fairly good reviews, they can fix functional issues. I think that’s a good question to ask.

Complication rates? Also, a good question to ask. And how many revisions do they do of their own patients and other people’s patients on average?

The Most Common Questions from Hair Transplant Patients

By Dr. Jesse E. Smith, MD, FACS
Facial Plastic Surgeon

A couple of the most common questions we have asked for hair transplant patients are: am I a candidate? And then two is what are my results going to be? And then three is am I going to need more than one transplant?

There are multiple ways to answer those questions, but most people that still have a decent amount of hair on top of their head are candidates.

We have good results, but it depends on how much you’ve lost or whether you need one or two, sometimes three procedures, but you never know unless you ask. And, we’ve got plenty of folks to answer those questions.

#1 Mistake When Researching a Rhinoplasty Surgeon

By Dr. Jesse E. Smith, MD, FACS
Facial Plastic Surgeon

The number one mistake I think people make when researching rhinoplasty surgeons is they look at before and after photos only. A lot of photos unfortunately these days are touched up. So we want real photos and good light of people.

And then the other thing I think that people do is they don’t really look at surgeons that can repair breathing issues as well. A lot of people have breathing issues whether they know it or not.

And some of the cosmetic rhinoplasty docs don’t really address breathing. And I see a lot of those come back as secondary rhinoplasties in my practice where they should have been fixed the first time.