“Latin Americans are calling for a Western nose”.

-Dr. Alicia Sigler explains the aesthetic demands on Latin America

-Sigler also specializes in nasal surgery on patients cracked. one of every 700 children born with cleft lip ”

-more than 50 surgeons from around the world were analysed in Bilbao the latest trends in Rhinoplasty and nasal reconstruction

– in this event participated the doctor Fernando Ortiz Monasterioa world authority in the field of plastic surgery and mestizo nose specialist

-nose Fusion is a non-profit whose funds will be allocated to the training of surgeons

Bilbao, 2011-October surgery has evolved for cultural reasons, has localize ”. So says Dr. Fernando Ortiz Monasterio, a world authority in the field of plastic surgery that has travelled from Mexico and who participated the past weekend in Bilbao in the nose merger Congress organized by the surgeon Jose Sainz Arregui. As points out the Mexican expert, Rhinoplasty is one of the surgeries finest ”. They have significantly improved the techniques that affect the paranasal area (around the nose), minimizing complications and improve the aesthetic results.

The specialist, head of the Department of surgery plastic of the Mexico González Gea Hospital, has explained the newest techniques in surgery of mestizo nose (Rhinoplasty not Caucasian), a type of nose by his physiognomy operates in a very specific way.

In general terms it can distinguish between the mestizo nose and Western nose (Caucasian). This is thin skin, fine tip and prominent dorsal. On the other hand, the mestizo nose has a thicker skin, projection under the tip and short cartilages that less support the curve of the nose. These people have a greater projection of the jaw and nose flat, so that in these surgeries used grafts that sometimes they obtained from the ribs to thus give more prominence to the tip. In some more extreme rhinoplasties are used very sophisticated techniques where skin grafts are taken from the front. The result is almost perfect ”, points.

Although all of these surgeries have a functional part, his experience is that the majority of patients have an aesthetic desire. It is also the case of Dr. Alicia Sigler: our patients seeking cosmetic ”, says this specialist who works between California (United States) and Tijuana (Mexico). This aesthetic demand notes, is common in both countries. and what nose want? Latin Americans ask a Western nose, a Caucasian pattern-based ”, points Sigler.

One of every 700 children born with cleft lip

Dr. Alicia Sigler, the split lip palate clinic and Craniofacial of the children’s Hospital of the Californias in Tijuana (Mexico) Coordinator, explained in this Congress nose merger the newest techniques in the reconstruction of patients cracked. It’s called cleft lip, a congenital deformity that was born one of every 700 children in the world. This defect in the structures of the mouth causes a fissure or separation in the lip and/or palate as result that the two sides of the upper lip did not grow at the same time. A three-month-old operates these children to close the lip and correct the nose. In addition, if there is a problem of palate is operated again when they have a year ”, said the specialist.

Sigler has also presented a rhinoplasty in the back work in male patients. In one case performed surgery to decrease nasal dorsum of a mestizo nose and another man carried out an increase. Was a more complete surgery because the patient had lost the nose after a trauma, and was a reconstruction, increasing the nasal dorsum, using bone and cartilage of rib ”.

Surgeons from around the world

In this Congress, held the last weekend in the College of physicians of Biscay, he stressed the participation of top-level surgeons such as Fernando Molina, head of the Department of plastic surgery, aesthetic and Reconstructive of the GEA González Hospital of Mexico; Romulo Guerrero, President of the Federation Ibero for plastic surgery or Caesar Casado, Chief of service of plastic surgery, aesthetic and reconstructive surgery of the Hospital Universitario La Paz of Madrid.

Also highlighted the figure of Fernando Ortiz-Monasterio, a world authority in the field of plastic surgery famous, among other landmarks, for being the first specialist in applying the technique of distraction osteogenic jaw area. Head of the Department of surgery plastic of the Hospital Gea González from Mexico, this surgeon explained the newest techniques in surgery of mestizo nose (Rhinoplasty not Caucasian), a type of nose by his physiognomy operates in a very specific way.

Nose fusion Bilbao is a Congress that does not-for-profit, so the benefits that may be obtained will be used for the training of medical professionals through plastic surgery in Hospital Manuel Gea González (Mexico) service in order to fund scholarships to its residents.