title: The use and abuse of external incisions in rhinoplasties.
abstract: The author emphasizes his basic opposition to the use of external incisions in surgical rhinoplasty with only a few minor exceptions. External incisions are justifiable in only a limited number of cases, and when they are published these cases should be exceptional indeed and not suggested as an alternative technique or as an innovation to be used on a routine basis. The endonasal approach should be used in the vast majority of aesthetic rhinoplasties with only a few exceptions mentioned here.
authors.affiliation: Departmento de Cirugia Plastica, Centro Especial Ramon y Cajal, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Vilar-Sancho
mesh_terms: D004954:Esthetics; D006801:Humans; D012225:Rhinoplasty