Technology is changing the world in numerous ways, including affecting our perception of ourselves. We live in a world where everyone carries a high-resolution camera on their phone, which naturally leads to increased exposure of our own photos online. For most of us, more selfies means more opportunities than ever before to highlight our flaws, not just highlight our facial flaws. Having dozens of facial photos spread across the internet may not seem like a problem for those blessed with facial symmetry like the mythological character “Adonis,” but the rest of us, stooped mortals, are doomed to live with our crooked noses and unsymmetrical ears.
In the old days ( (a time before computers but after dinosaurs) people didn't have to worry so much about how they looked, or at least they didn't have a constant reminder of every bad day thrown in their face. Everything they encountered was not mentioned or shared among friends. Today, nearly a billion people use some form of social media, and there's no hiding from last week's unflattering pose.
First of all, I should point out that all people's faces are asymmetrical. When we digitally separate the right and left halves of the face, take the mirror images of the separated images, and make a full face from the right and left, the result is surprising. Full faces obtained from the right half and the left half of the face look like siblings of each other. After this definition, it should not be difficult to guess how natural it is that photographs taken from the right and left sides of our face look different.
The nose is no exception to this situation. The nose is structurally composed of bone, cartilage and soft tissue “pairs” and these pairs are often not symmetrical. Nose surgery often corrects curvatures and asymmetries in the nose, but it cannot eliminate them. Even if you have nose surgery, asymmetries and minor axis curvatures in the nose will continue.
After the surgery, my patients said "Sir, I am very happy with my nose, but it looks different from the left and right in the photos" � They may have complaints such as: I think it will be beneficial for candidates who will undergo rhinoplasty surgery to be informed about these details in the age of technology, so that they can go through the post-operative period more comfortably. Another point is the device with which the photo was taken. Samsung? iPhone? Or another device? Did you know that photographs taken on smartphones, especially those where the camera is off-center and wide-angle, can be digitally distorted and make asymmetries appear more obvious than they actually are? It is very easy to make someone look beautiful and look uglier than they are. Minor changes in the direction, intensity and color of the light can create completely different looking faces in photographs. While the faces of the models and celebrities you see on magazine covers are photographed, thousands of frames are taken, and the perfect photo is printed on a selected one, after many digital improvements are made.
Ultimately, rhinoplasty will change both your profile photo and your face in a positive way. On the other hand, you will live with your face, not your profile photo. So leave your profile photos on your social media pages and enjoy your new face.
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