Rhinology & Otology

Biography

Biography: Carlos Perez Bolde Villarreal

Abstract

The body dysmorphic disorder also known as dysmorphic syndorme or dismophophobia is a mental disorder categorized in the obsessive compulsive spectrum and is characterized by an obsessive worry of a perceived defect in one’s own appearance. Usually patients imagine the flaw or if it actually exists, the magnitude of it is exaggerated. This patients often search for surgery to correct the problem and in the case that the surgeon does not detect this disorder prior to surgery, it may affect the surgeon’s reputation and become a real problem. Having the right rhinoplasty patient is not just avoiding conflicting patients as the ones with body dismorphic disorder, but to perform the right analysis and surgical plan based on the physical and anatomical characteristics of each patient. Multiple facial analysis have been described to evaluate symmetry and beauty characteristics and test for detecting body dysmophic disorder but there is no evidence that they are used rutinarely to evaluate patients searching for aesthetic surgery in Mexico. We conduct a survey to determine how otolaryngologist and plastic surgeons in Mexico approach patients willing to have aesthetic nose surgery.