Policlínica Group continues to move towards minimally invasive and cutting-edge surgical techniques such as ultrasonic rhinoplasty incorporated into its Otorhinolaryngology Unit.
Rhinoplasty is one of the most requested facial operations due to its double motivation, both aesthetic and to improve respiratory function. Through this aesthetic and functional surgery, the external shape and internal structure of the nose is corrected to give a more harmonious and proportionate appearance to the face as a whole and to improve nasal breathing altered by various factors.
This minimally invasive and quick recovery surgery, whose ultimate goal is to improve the patient's quality of life, repairing their respiratory function or raising their self-esteem, goes a step further and evolves towards ultrasonic rhinoplasty.
Thanks to the use of an ultrasonic device that performs very precise and controlled nasal microfractures in order to reshape the nose, damage to the mucosa, muscles or blood vessels is avoided, increasing the precision of the surgery. This allows bleeding and bruising to be kept to a minimum, reducing postoperative discomfort and the classic bruising that appears around the eyes.
Advantages over traditional rhinoplasty
As the Otorhinolaryngology Unit at Policlínica Nuestra Señora del Rosario explains, in operations aimed at changing the shape of the nose, the bone has to be fractured. In a traditional rhinoplasty, this is done with an osteotome (the closest thing to the chisel used in sculpture to carve a figure), and this entails the small risk of the bone fracturing in the wrong direction. The piezoelectric scalpel cuts the bone in a controlled way, so "the surgeon is practically 'drawing' the nose and the chance of an unexpected fracture is reduced to almost 100%".
In traditional rhinoplasty, as a result of tissue damage after bone fracture, the classic swelling of the nose and bruising around the eyes appear. With the new ultrasonic rhinoplasty technique, as there is no tissue damage, the patient has no swelling or bruising after surgery.
Solution to respiratory and aesthetic problems
The structure of the nose is made up of bone and cartilage and these structures do not stop growing throughout our lives, so that as we get older their size increases. This growing deformity occurs both externally, in the nose that we see, and internally, also causing deformities of the nasal septum and giving rise to breathing difficulties.
Therefore, an external deformity of the nose is almost always accompanied by a deformity on the inside of the nose, even without the patient realising it, which is why the most common type of intervention is rhino-septoplasty or septorhinoplasty. This involves correcting both the external and internal deformity, "not only making the nose more beautiful but also making it function correctly", emphasise the Polyclinic's ENT specialists.
In short, ultrasonic rhinoplasty is especially aimed at all those patients who do not breathe well and need a correction of the nasal septum to breathe better, as well as those who want to change the shape of their nose to achieve better harmony in their face, whether or not they have nasal breathing difficulties.
Specialists confirm that conventional rhinoplasty will no longer be performed as this new ultrasonic instrument allows a much better control of the surgery than the traditional method. Although the time of the intervention may vary depending on the type of patient, the average duration of this revolutionary nasal surgical technique is between two and three hours.
