Biography
Biography: Ahmed Walaa AbouSheleib
Abstract
“Middle Eastern” often refers to individuals of Arabic, Turkish, North African and Persian descent. Rhinoplasty on “Middle Eastern nose” possesses an added challenge for the surgeon, owing to certain anatomical characteristics that make Middle Eastern rhinoplasty difficult. Patients may present with a heavy thick skin envelope, bulbous tip, weak alar cartilages with limited support, nostril-tip imbalance and a droopy ill-defined nasal tip. The operative plan must take into account this vast majority of Middle Eastern nasal inherited features. Independent of the surgeon’s technical approach, understanding the concerns, goals and motivations for such patients who tend to be “perfectionists” together with preservation of the patient’s ethnic identity will make nasal surgery successful.