Dundee Advanced Rhinoplasty Course

Course Leads: Richard Green & Rohit Gohil

 

Target audience: Surgical trainees (Registrar; Fellow), Non-training Grade and Consultant

 

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, lectures, technique demonstrations & case workshops. 

 

Programme 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