Dr. Zahi Abou Chacra is a famend Canadian plastic surgeon with board certifications from each the Royal School of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgical procedure. He focuses on Customized Rhinoplasty – providing quite a lot of forms of Rhinoplasties, together with: Ethnic Rhinoplasty, Revision Rhinoplasty, Beauty Rhinoplasty, Major Rhinoplasty, Finesse Rhinoplasty, Ultrasonic Rhinoplasty and Practical Rhinoplasty, in addition to adjunct procedures similar to 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 observe, the primary of its sort in Montreal, providing high-end affected person care and is a non-public observe devoted solely to the artwork of rhinoplasty.
Over the past 13 years, Dr. Chacra has change 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 observe?
Dr. Chacra: I opened Clinique 7 after 12 years in observe to have the ability to supply extra sufferers the chance to find their choices in relation to Rhinoplasty. This surgical procedure calls for that sufferers be well-informed and adopted carefully all through the method, not solely resulting from its complicated nature, however as a result of it really is such a substantial change to probably the most central a part of the face. Rhinoplasty is extensively thought of probably the most intellectually demanding of all facial plastic surgical procedures. Affected person choice is essential to me, and at Clinique 7, my group and I can supply a service that’s extremely personalised. Each affected person advantages from the one-on-one method with myself and my surgical coordinator, which permits me to totally consider their candidacy for surgical procedure and design a remedy 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 actually love doing.
Q: What are some prime causes that folks come to you for a rhinoplasty?
Dr. Chacra: Sufferers hunt down rhinoplasty companies at Clinique 7 for a lot of completely different causes. Normally, sufferers want to modify the looks of their nostril for causes associated to their shallowness. As such is most frequently the case in relation to cosmetic surgery. Whether or not or not it’s asymmetry, dimension, or form, I consider the underlying issues of the affected person throughout an preliminary session with them to higher perceive why they’re inquisitive about 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 endure rhinoplasty with me and get to know them and what they wish 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 focuses on 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 purposeful causes – typically combining each throughout the identical surgical procedure. Nonetheless, I do supply adjunct procedures, as properly, which can be 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 have a look at their face from all angles and regulate my surgical planning to fastidiously advocate or counsel how they will obtain optimum facial stability to create a softer, extra engaging look.
That is the place a surgeon’s eye for magnificence comes into play since these suggestions come all the way down to proportions. The purpose is all the time 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 might also 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’d 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 perfect of what medication has to supply, you should be nice at what you do. This implies: Observe what you like and decide to being the perfect at it.
While you do that, your sufferers profit from knowledgeable decision-making, optimum outcomes and an total constructive expertise. We change into physicians to assist folks. Surgeons, for my part, have the obligation to change into consultants of their subject who can assess, deal with and clear up complicated issues for sufferers. You keep sharp by doing analysis, attending conferences, taking additional programs, being mentored by older, extra skilled surgeons and specialists. The most effective recommendation I’d give a youthful surgeon is: Don’t be afraid to hunt recommendation. Being challenged is part of this profession. In my view, you should be curious, targeted and really feel captivated with 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 personalised dialogue with every affected person takes place. A radical examination is completed to precisely assess the issue of every particular person case and deal with completely different issues. A surgical correction isn’t 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 endure rhinoplasty as typically as feminine sufferers?
Dr. Chacra: Briefly, the reply is sure. Although feminine sufferers could also be extra vocal and clear in relation to having cosmetic surgery, male sufferers additionally profit from rhinoplasty, and I see many in my observe. As with the wonder business generally, it’s principally focused to girls. Nonetheless, over the past 10-15 years, we’ve got seen a substantial rise in male rhinoplasty sufferers, although this demographic has all the time existed. Male sufferers profit from the identical beauty and purposeful enhancements that feminine sufferers do.
In the case 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 purpose with male sufferers is to supply them a preview of their nostril post-operatively with the assistance of laptop imaging and stroll them via 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 issues concerned in performing elective beauty surgical procedures?
Dr. Chacra: Affected person choice is extremely essential resulting from quite a lot of components together with, however not restricted to: The psychological, emotional, and even monetary or psychosocial facets that will have an effect on a affected person who’s looking for to endure cosmetic surgery. Surgeons should consider a affected person’s candidacy for surgical procedure primarily based on apparent, and fewer apparent info that they obtain from sufferers in the course of the session course of.
This requires a eager sense for folks, good instinct (intestine feeling), and principally, the flexibility to actively pay attention 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 pictures on social media platforms which were altered or modified to replicate unrealistic magnificence requirements.
I take medical ethics as they pertain to rhinoplasty extremely severely. I imagine sufferers deserve the reality about what’s medically and aesthetically doable in relation to their wishes and issues. Sufferers have to know what is feasible, and what isn’t. It’s my duty to supply scientifically backed info and details about rhinoplasty and share my intensive information of nasal anatomy and surgical limitations with my sufferers. Creating an sincere surroundings during which to have these conversations is crucial to the standard of the rapport you construct together with your sufferers and builds belief.
