Before consulting your doctor, who is going to perform your operation, it is very important for you to determine all your complaints that directs you to this surgery.
In addition to the aesthetic problems that you would like to be corrected, determination of the presence of functional problems like nasal obstruction, nasal discharge, discharge to the nasal cavity and headache will help your doctor in determining and solving the other problems that are present in your nose region during this operation to prevent another operation in the same anatomic region in the future.
You must discuss the problems that you determine and the changes that you would like to have with your doctor. The compliance of your expectations from the surgery with your present facial aesthetic proportions and your normal functions of the nose and the probability of meeting your expectations should be clearly expressed by your doctor.
Preventing the disappointment after the surgery will be possible by discussing these details thoroughly and with a mutual agreement on the changes that will be performed during the surgery with your doctor.
The performance of visual informing on the possible different results of the operation with digital imaging techniques make it easy for you to decide the new shape of your nose. Today, rapidly developing medical technologies enable precise preoperative evaluations of existing problems; and at the same time, make it possible to obtain highly realistic 3D images of the possible end results of the intended interventions in the nose and face.
Figure: Prediction of different results before the surgery facilitates deciding on the desired result and the operation can de planned to achieve this result.
Though your evaluations are performed and your pictures are taken in sitting position before the surgery, the operation is performed in supine position. Besides this change in gravity vector the tissue swelling related to anesthetic injections it may become difficult to decide on the amount of the tissue that will be modified during the operation. Therefore, calculations of these measurements and detailed planning of the processes to be performed before the operation, become very important for your operation to result as desired.
