It’s tough – you’ve been under the knife once and here you go again, getting a botched nose job repaired.
But an aspect of the procedure – in addition to using a master surgeon –will lighten your mood: the music that cosmetic plastic surgeons play in the operating room as they carefully craft patient’s new noses.
Your first nose job was botched because rhinoplasty is the hardest cosmetic surgery for surgeons to learn. Your surgeon should also have some stripes on his or her sleeve because a large part of the art of both rhinoplasty and revision rhinoplasty is watching and learning what Mother Nature does to a nose over time. It literally takes 10 years of experience to get a grasp on re-doing failed nose jobs.
So why not enjoy a happy or peaceful tune while in surgery? (Continued below.)
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Non-surgical rhinoplasty permanently repairs disfigurements on the outside of the nose. The patient below and right, had the gouge on the right side of her nose permanently filled via non-surgical rhinoplasty which is also known as “injection rhinoplasty“. Her after surgery picture is below and left. (Photo, Robert Kotler, M.D.)
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(CONTINUED.) Besides, it’s good for you! Researchers have now added knowledge about the effects of music on people undergoing cosmetic surgery.
Even Lady Gaga gets into the act. (Read more about her rhinoplasty.)
The subject captured attention in the blogosphere when famous Detroit-area plastic surgeon Anthony Youn, M.D. wrote that he listens to Lady Gaga in the operating room and that it is very common for music to be piped in while plastic surgery procedures are being performed.
Researchers writing in Surgical Endoscopy, a professional magazine for surgeons, compared cosmetic surgeons who listened to hard rock or heavy metal with doctors who grooved to classical strains? Results? Classical music best affected doctors.
(Read more about the effects of classical music on cosmetic surgery procedures.)
We have always preferred classic while doing rhinoplasty revision and other procedures. But don’t get the idea you’ll have to suffer music you don’t like. Just ask your surgeon to play the tunes you like best.
However, classical may be the best. Oxford University Hospitals in England – a land where 90 percent of surgeons listen to music while operating — measured the vital signs of 96 surgical patients before, during and after cosmetic surgery. Half the research subjects heard no music while the other half were in ORs where classical was played. The music group was found to have lower respiration rates and said they were not as anxious. One surgeon/author even suggested that playing music during any operation should be made standard due to the music’s medical benefits.
Most calming music according to the study? Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi and Bach. (Read more about surgery and music.)
But there were holdouts: a few patients asked for Frank Sinatra!
