Talk:Rhinoplasty

surgeryimages site

I have a site containing images from a rhinoplasty procedure ,but since It's my site someone else must approve the link first before adding it to the external links

http://surgery-images.com/plastic/rhinoplasty.html Nfostiras 08:34, 30 October 2006 (UTC)nfostiras[reply]

Clean Up

This page needs better references. Recurring dreams 01:51, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. For starters, can someone please provide the technical name of the type of surgeon that performs rhinoplasties? M. Frederick 01:15, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

He or she is known as a plastic surgeon. Usually, a board-certified plastic surgeon is required. And then, rhinoplasty, being one of the most difficult plastic surgeries, also has a procedure known as Revision Rhinoplasty. That surgeon specializes in repairing botched cases, which are doubly hard and complicated because they were not done correctly the first time.Charles.Downey 16:54, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Political correctness

I am not American, and am quite convinced that rhinoplasties are performed on non-American citizens. Why are blacks and asians referred to as "African-Americans" and "Asian-Americans"? Besides that, do non-whites in your country really want to be called by those cumbersome names...? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.209.99.7 (talk) 21:38, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, political correctness is forcing us to behave obtusely. I have no qualms with using "Black" or "Asian" (East Asian, if the orient is to be implied) in this context (I am black myself, Canadian, so I also find the term "Afro-American" even more restrictive then the racial restrictions it sought to destroy when its use was popularized) 74.12.75.157 03:26, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cost, Expense, Risks, Side Effects?

There is no mention of any of these in the article. I'd think it informative to include a section on the potential risks and side effects of rhinoplasty (i.e. nose collapse, infections, etc). Naturually, the cost can vary from region and country, but I think a general/average range of expense for this surgery would be nice (a break down by region even better). Then again, to be fair, the statement does not imply that only African/Asian-Americans are the ethnic recipients of this surgery, only that, of those groups, many choose to do it, and it would not be terribly far off to assume that of any ethnic Black/Asian sub-population, America does have the most members. 74.12.75.157 03:29, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]