By Dr Scott J Turner, Specialist Plastic Surgeon (FRACS) | Bondi Junction, Sydney Swelling is the most predictable part of rhinoplasty recovery, and the most misunderstood. Every patient experiences it. What catches people off guard isn’t the swelling itself; it’s how long the full process takes. This guide draws on what patients at our practice […]

By Dr Scott J Turner, Specialist Plastic Surgeon (FRACS) | Bondi Junction, Sydney Many people arrive at their first rhinoplasty consultation expecting something close to a sales meeting. They’re often surprised when it isn’t. What actually happens instead is a structured clinical process, staged across multiple appointments with regulatory checkpoints built in. Some of it […]

By Dr Scott J Turner, Specialist Plastic Surgeon (FRACS) | Bondi Junction, Sydney When you start researching rhinoplasty surgery, you’ll quickly encounter two terms describing how the procedure is performed, open rhinoplasty and closed rhinoplasty. These aren’t different operations. They’re different access routes to the same internal structures. The distinction lies in where incisions are placed […]

By Dr Scott J Turner, Specialist Plastic Surgeon (FRACS) | Bondi Junction, Sydney If you’ve been thinking about rhinoplasty surgery in Sydney, one of the first things you’ll need to understand is the difference between cosmetic and functional nose surgery. They get lumped together quite often, but they serve very different purposes, and that distinction […]

By Dr Scott J Turner, Specialist Plastic Surgeon (FRACS) | Bondi Junction, Sydney If you’ve been researching rhinoplasty, you may have come across the term “structural rhinoplasty”, and wondered what separates it from any other kind of nose surgery. It’s a fair question. The short answer is that structural rhinoplasty isn’t so much about how […]

By Dr Scott J Turner, Specialist Plastic Surgeon (FRACS) | Bondi Junction, Sydney Most people who walk into a rhinoplasty consultation have been thinking about it for a long time. Months. Sometimes years. And yet when they sit down, they’ll often say something like, “I’m not even sure where to start.” That’s actually a perfectly […]

By Dr Scott J Turner, Specialist Plastic Surgeon (FRACS) | Bondi Junction, Sydney Many patients who enquire about nasal surgery at FacePlus Aesthetics discover that their concerns extend beyond appearance. Difficulty breathing through the nose affects sleep quality, exercise capacity, and daily comfort in ways that medications and sprays cannot resolve when the underlying cause […]

By Dr Scott J Turner, Specialist Plastic Surgeon (FRACS) | Bondi Junction, Sydney Rhinoplasty surgery at FacePlus Aesthetics involves far more than what happens in the operating theatre. The quality of your recovery environment during the first critical weeks plays a genuine role in how comfortably you heal. Preparing before surgery means you can focus […]

By Dr Scott J Turner, Specialist Plastic Surgeon (FRACS) | Bondi Junction, Sydney The phrase “less invasive nose job in Sydney” gets used a lot when ultrasonic rhinoplasty comes up. Ultrasonic rhinoplasty isn’t a separate category of surgery. It’s not a non-surgical treatment dressed up in clinical language. What it refers to is a specific […]