Dr. Zahi Abou Chacra is a famend Canadian plastic surgeon with board certifications from each the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgical procedure. He makes a speciality of Customized Rhinoplasty – providing quite a lot of varieties of Rhinoplasties, together with: Ethnic Rhinoplasty, Revision Rhinoplasty, Beauty Rhinoplasty, Main Rhinoplasty, Finesse Rhinoplasty, Ultrasonic Rhinoplasty and Useful Rhinoplasty, in addition to adjunct procedures reminiscent of Chin & Neck Liposuction and Chin Implants. Dr. Chacra is the proprietor and Medical Director of Clinique 7 – Rhinoplastie, positioned in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Clinique 7 is a boutique rhinoplasty follow, the primary of its variety in Montreal, providing high-end affected person care and is a non-public follow devoted solely to the artwork of rhinoplasty.
Over the past 13 years, Dr. Chacra has turn into one of many prime Rhinoplasty surgeons in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. He believes that Rhinoplasty is a mixture of each artwork and science.
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Q: Why did you open Clinique 7 – Rhinoplastie, your personal follow?
Dr. Chacra: I opened Clinique 7 after 12 years in follow to have the ability to supply extra sufferers the chance to find their choices relating to Rhinoplasty. This surgical procedure calls for that sufferers be well-informed and adopted intently all through the method, not solely as a consequence of its complicated nature, however as a result of it actually is such a substantial change to essentially the most central a part of the face. Rhinoplasty is extensively thought-about essentially the most intellectually demanding of all facial plastic surgical procedures. Affected person choice is essential to me, and at Clinique 7, my workforce and I can supply a service that’s extremely customized. Each affected person advantages from the one-on-one method with myself and my surgical coordinator, which permits me to completely consider their candidacy for surgical procedure and design a therapy plan that’s tailor-made to them. It was essential to me when opening Clinique 7 to construct a model with a fame for excellence and a tradition that was closely influenced by my devotion to this surgical procedure which I really love doing.
Q: What are some prime causes that folks come to you for a rhinoplasty?
Dr. Chacra: Sufferers search out rhinoplasty companies at Clinique 7 for a lot of completely different causes. Often, sufferers want to modify the looks of their nostril for causes associated to their vanity. As such is most frequently the case relating to cosmetic surgery. Whether or not or not it’s asymmetry, measurement, or form, I consider the underlying issues of the affected person throughout an preliminary session with them to raised perceive why they’re concerned with rhinoplasty.
It’s essential to grasp somebody’s motivation behind assembly with a plastic surgeon within the first place. I’ve a duty to evaluate every particular person looking for to bear rhinoplasty with me and get to know them and what they want to obtain with the surgical procedure, whether or not or not it’s one thing that’s linked to the bodily, or the emotional high quality of their life. Some questions I ask sufferers are: Why Rhinoplasty? Why Clinique 7? And, after all, why now?
Q: What different surgical procedures do you carry out?
Dr. Chacra: I’m an ENT who makes a speciality of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive surgical procedure with a penchant particularly for Rhinoplasty. I took a liking to this department of cosmetic surgery very early on in my medical profession. It’s essential to notice that I supply all types of rhinoplasty companies, working on sufferers for each beauty, in addition to useful causes – usually combining each throughout the identical surgical procedure. Nevertheless, I do supply adjunct procedures, as effectively, which are mixed with rhinoplasty.
Throughout consultations with sufferers, I consider the general concord of their face and the fragile stability of their options. Because of this I take a look at their face from all angles and alter my surgical planning to rigorously advocate or recommend how they’ll obtain optimum facial stability to create a softer, extra enticing look.
That is the place a surgeon’s eye for magnificence comes into play since these suggestions come right down to proportions. The objective is at all times to convey out the affected person’s pure magnificence and improve their different options, such because the eyes or the lips. I do that by combining rhinoplasty with chin & neck liposuction or a customized chin implant.
I may contour the jawline or plump the lips barely with a little bit of injectable fillers if the affected person wishes some pure quantity or definition that’s non-surgical, a little bit of time after their surgical procedure.
Q: What recommendation would you give to different surgeons beginning out on their medical journey?
Dr. Chacra: I might encourage them to be part of a robust medical group and participate in analysis. As a doctor and surgeon, particularly, I really feel there’s a duty and a dedication to lifelong studying. It’s not sufficient to be “good.” I really feel that to supply sufferers the very best of what drugs has to supply, you have to be nice at what you do. This implies: Observe what you’re keen on and decide to being the very best at it.
Whenever you do that, your sufferers profit from knowledgeable decision-making, optimum outcomes and an total optimistic expertise. We turn into physicians to assist individuals. Surgeons, in my view, have the obligation to turn into specialists of their area who can assess, sort out and remedy complicated issues for sufferers. You keep sharp by doing analysis, attending conferences, taking further programs, being mentored by older, extra skilled surgeons and specialists. One of the best recommendation I might give a youthful surgeon is: Don’t be afraid to hunt recommendation. Being challenged is part of this profession. For my part, you have to be curious, targeted and really feel enthusiastic about your specialty to achieve success at it.
Q: What’s the success fee like with rhinoplasty?
Dr. Chacra: Very excessive. Throughout a Rhinoplasty session, an in depth and customized dialogue with every affected person takes place. A radical examination is finished to precisely assess the problem of every particular person case and deal with completely different issues. A surgical correction is never required as soon as the therapeutic interval has handed.
My sufferers can anticipate very minimal scarring, if any, from my strategies. Most of my sufferers don’t show a scar as soon as they’ve healed.
Q: Do male sufferers search to bear rhinoplasty as usually as feminine sufferers?
Dr. Chacra: In brief, the reply is sure. Although feminine sufferers could also be extra vocal and clear relating to having cosmetic surgery, male sufferers additionally profit from rhinoplasty, and I see many in my follow. As with the wonder trade on the whole, it’s largely focused to girls. Nevertheless, during the last 10-15 years, we’ve seen a substantial rise in male rhinoplasty sufferers, although this demographic has at all times existed. Male sufferers profit from the identical beauty and useful enhancements that feminine sufferers do.
In terms of male sufferers, my method is comparable. Not like the feminine demographic, some male sufferers have by no means made any beauty modifications to their look in any respect, with rhinoplasty being the primary time they’re contemplating doing so.
My objective with male sufferers is to supply them a preview of their nostril post-operatively with the assistance of laptop imaging and stroll them by means of all the course of from starting to finish in order that they know precisely what to anticipate.
Q: How do surgeons deal with the moral concerns concerned in performing elective beauty surgical procedures?
Dr. Chacra: Affected person choice is extremely essential as a consequence of quite a lot of components together with, however not restricted to: The psychological, emotional, and even monetary or psychosocial features which will have an effect on a affected person who’s looking for to bear cosmetic surgery. Surgeons should consider a affected person’s candidacy for surgical procedure based mostly on apparent, and fewer apparent data that they obtain from sufferers in the course of the session course of.
This requires a eager sense for individuals, good instinct (intestine feeling), and largely, the flexibility to actively hear and take note of the affected person and what they’re telling you. It’s as much as you, as a surgeon, to resolve whether or not it’s moral to function on any given affected person.
Although ethics are part of our day-to-day lives, plastic surgeons have an elevated duty given the rise in physique dysmorphia, psychological well being issues and the ever-present photos on social media platforms which were altered or modified to replicate unrealistic magnificence requirements.
I take medical ethics as they pertain to rhinoplasty extremely significantly. I imagine sufferers deserve the reality about what’s medically and aesthetically doable relating to their wishes and issues. Sufferers must know what is feasible, and what isn’t. It’s my duty to supply scientifically backed data and information about rhinoplasty and share my intensive data of nasal anatomy and surgical limitations with my sufferers. Creating an sincere atmosphere wherein to have these conversations is crucial to the standard of the rapport you construct together with your sufferers and builds belief.
