{"id":6296,"date":"2020-11-13T10:40:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T05:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/news\/?p=6296"},"modified":"2022-03-12T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T09:26:10","slug":"ultrasonic-rhinoplasty-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-approach-to-nose-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/blog\/ultrasonic-rhinoplasty-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-approach-to-nose-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultrasonic Rhinoplasty: What You Need to Know About The New Approach to Nose Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Source – https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/<\/p>\n

was scrolling through TikTok, you know, as one does after a long day of WFH, when I\u00a0stumbled upon a video that\u00a0looked<\/em>\u00a0like a nose job. But it wasn’t like any regular nose job\u2014the doctor was using what seemed to be legit sorcery to reshape and resize his patient’s nose. “WTF is this?” I texted my friend who always finds herself in a plastic surgery TikTok hole. “Whoa,” she said. “No idea.”<\/p>\n

After doing a quick Google search, I discovered that it wasn’t actually magic that transformed the patient’s nose (shocking, I know)\u2014it was\u00a0a new technique called an ultrasonic rhinoplasty.<\/strong>\u00a0So to learn more about the procedure, I reached out two board-certified plastic surgeons: (1)\u00a0Dr. Samuel Lin,<\/u><\/u>\u00a0who says he chooses\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0to use this method and why, along with (2)\u00a0Dr. Kim Patrick Murray, the doctor from the\u00a0TikTok\u00a0video I saw, who says he’s never going back to traditional rhinoplasty ever again.<\/p>\n

With traditional rhinoplasty, doctors use hammers and chisels to reshape your nose (yup, really). But the ultrasonic method involves reshaping the nose with an ultrasound device that “makes cuts in the bone,” says Dr. Lin. As you can see in the video above, the doctor uses a hand piece\u2014it’s called a piezotome\u2014that transfers a vibration to the nose, says Dr. Kim Patrick Murray.\u00a0Because the vibration is happening so fast, you don’t even really see it<\/strong>, which is why it’s called\u00a0ultrasonic<\/em>.<\/p>\n

That vibration is tuned in at a\u00a0very<\/em>\u00a0specific frequency so that it selectively acts on bones and nothing else. So if you put it against skin or a tissue or a blood vessel, says Dr. Kim Patrick Murray, the frequency isn’t high enough to cause any damage.\u00a0It’s kind of like a car radio when you’re driving in the middle of nowhere<\/strong>\u2014unless you’re tuned in at the right wavelength, there’s no audible sound, just white noise.<\/p>\n

FYI: Dr. Kim Patrick Murray says the actual technology used in ultrasonic rhinoplasties isn’t anything new. It was first used in brain surgery to help doctors operate on skulls and faces while trying to protect the surrounding nerves and tissues. But it only recently trickled down to rhinoplasty, he says, when the tools and attachments became small enough to use on the nose.<\/p>\n

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