Dr. Jay Calvert – Secondary Rhinoplasty

The difficulty with secondary rhinoplasty is that as a surgeon, we are always coming from behind when the first(or second, or third, etc) operation did not go well. 

The trust factor is gone and no matter how many of these operations we have done as secondary rhinoplasty surgeons, we are still trying to have it be different then the previous operation that failed. 

And it is a setup for failure since no secondary rhinoplasty operation has the chance to be as correct as it could have been on the first go around. 

So why bother?

The reason I perform secondary rhinoplasty is that I believe the patients want better and with clarity of diagnosis and planning, reasonable goals can be achieved. 

It’s not easy, though. 

Though everything turned out well, we can always find things that potentially COULD have been better. 

Yet, this patient is very happy and she is the kind of patient that does well with secondary rhinoplasty.

So with that said, those of you considering secondary or tertiary rhinoplasty, please keep in mind the need to be understanding of the limits of these operations.

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