Doctor Sylvie Poignonec is a French plastic and head and neck surgeon specialized in rhinoplasty, recognized and qualified by the French Order of Medical Doctors and National Health Authority, as well as by the European Plastic Surgery Board EPOBRAS. Active member of the French Society of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics SOFCRPE and SOFCEP and member of the AAC Label Expert Panel, former vice president of the French Society of Continued Learning in Aesthetic surgery, Dr Poignonec has 25 years of experience in plastic, oral and maxillofacial surgery, especially at Bichat and Pitié Salpêtrière hospitals in Paris, performing over 2000 rhinoplasty interventions both aesthetic and functional. While adding to her experience, her teaching at APHP medical school and at a large number of surgery and aesthetic courses and workshops led her to open her own private clinic, while still working for the APHP National Health Paris Hospitals as consultant. She has authored and co-authored several books on cosmetic surgery and anti-aging medicine and been given the Best Clinical Case Award in Rhinoplasty at 2015 AMEC congress. Her teaching techniques and didactic concept for surgeons in training include clinical examination, photography, Tomodensitometry (TDM) in 3D, computer simulations and the building of a dedicated check list that allows a careful patient approach and the best outcomes for the most frequent rhinoplasty cases.

Foreword by Y. Saban.- Preface by the author.- I Clinical cases for the Caucasian nose.- 1 Straight nose.- 2 Straight nose with hump.- 3 Asymmetric nose dorsum. - 4 High radix nose.- 5 Low radix nose.- 6 Nose with septum hypertrophy tension.- 7 Long columella nose.- 8 Nose with short columella.- 9 Alar malposition.- 10 Hypertrophy of the nostrils.- 11 Nose with thick skin.- 12 Thin skinned nose.- 13 Hyper-projected nose.- Hypo-projected nose.- II Clinical cases by different geographic or ethnic groups.- 14 Asian nose patients.- 15 African nose patients.- 16 Mediterranean nose patients.- 17 Oriental nose patients. - 18 Latin American nose patients.- 19 Clinical interventions and trends: patient expectation management.