Advanced Rhinoplasty Short Course

This 3 day course, using thiel embalmed cadaveric specimens’ provides a comprehensive educational opportunity in rhinoplasty. From initial consultation, through surgery, to post-operative care, covered using tutorials, technique demonstrations & case workshops.

Course overview

• Lectures & objective setting followed by practical exercises
• Soft tissue dissection
• Septoplasty, hump reduction, osteotomies
• Graft harvesting & preparation
• Reconstruction principles
• Spreader grafts & spreader flaps
• Septal extension graft
• Lateral crural strut graft; lateral crural graft; alar rim grafts
• (floating and possibly articulating)
• Dorsal graft
• Tip suturing

Learning outcomes

• How to assess and manage patients for septorhinoplasty
• To understand the principles of a safe and step wise approach to septorhinoplasty
• To understand the incision and soft tissue dissection of an open approach, including soft tissue work and skin closure
• How to assess for a hump and the surgical steps to reducing this.
• To understand the placement and use of osteotomies.
• To know the different tip modification techniques without grafting – i.e. suturing techniques; expanding to tip modification through grafting
• How to perform an extracorporeal septoplasty
• Gravting and harvesting cartilage (conchal and rib)
• How to perform surgery to the middle third of the nose – spreader grafts, spreader flaps.
• How to perform dorsal, alar and columellar grafting
• To understand the alternatives to open approach (closed approach; tip delivery)
• The principles of photo documentation in rhinoplasty and pre and post operative care