Rhinoplasty: An Outcome Research

Abstract

Whatever the type of initial demand (posttraumatic, cosmetic, or functional), rhinoplasty significantly increased Rhinoplasty Outcomes Evaluation scores. The study design did not allow the authors to determine subgroups of patients more able to obtain an important improvement score.

Crooked nose: outcome evaluations in rhinoplasty

“…In other words, when answering the questionnaire, the patient had the support from the preoperative pictures. There are very few published papers which used the ROE questionnaire, and the other two studies which used it, did so in a prospective way 17,19 . One of the main success factors for surgery is the patient's satisfaction after the procedure.…”

“…Recently, many review papers were carried out in order to select a tool capable of measuring and analyzing patient satisfaction in the post-op [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] . Alssarraf et al created and validated the ROE Questionnaire, a tool of easy and fast application, useful to assess different types of patients, approaches and surgical techniques 17,19,22 . In the present study, this questionnaire was used in order to measure the satisfaction of the patients submitted to rhinoplasty in order to correct a crooked nose.…”

“…Most of the papers discussing cosmetic surgery bear discussions regarding surgical techniques, access pathways, complications, sequelae and reoperation rates 2,[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] . The assessment of the intervention's final result was not very much studied under the patient's viewpoint, and such analysis is very important because patient satisfaction is the prevailing factor for surgical success [13][14][15][16][17] . In the recent decade, numerous have been the papers published in order to validate a reliable questionnaire to be employed in patients submitted to cosmetic surgery, with the goal of measuring patient satisfaction after the procedure [17][18][19][20][21][22] .…”

“…The assessment of the intervention's final result was not very much studied under the patient's viewpoint, and such analysis is very important because patient satisfaction is the prevailing factor for surgical success [13][14][15][16][17] . In the recent decade, numerous have been the papers published in order to validate a reliable questionnaire to be employed in patients submitted to cosmetic surgery, with the goal of measuring patient satisfaction after the procedure [17][18][19][20][21][22] . Some instruments, such as questionnaires, which assess quality of life and self-image have become a gold standard and came to replace the simplistic way used to ask the patient whether or not he/she had noticed any improvement after surgery 23,24 .…”

Prevalence of Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Impact on Subjective Outcome amongst Singaporean Rhinoplasty Patients

“…Rhinoplasty Outcome Evaluation (ROE) is a validated instrument used to assess patients' satisfaction towards the appearance and function of their nose, the impact on their social life as well as their desire for change [10]. Each question is scored on a Likert scale from 0 to 4, with 0 and 4 corresponding to the worst and best scores respectively.…”