With the advent of powerful computer software programs, virtual surgery is now possible. Whether it’s a virtual nose job or rhinoplasty, breast augmentation, chin augmentation or liposuction, the “after” surgery look is available, right at your doctor’s office, to help you decide whether this procedure is for you.

A virtual nose job is the new way of foreseeing what your new nose will look like and a way for surgeons to visually explain the whole procedure. Below are some of its advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages

1. Giving you the control of the procedure. You get to see from start to finish what the doctor will do and how he will do it.

You can have all the control in choosing the perfect type of procedure you want for your nose. With immediate “after” results, you can ask your doctor for another look .

2. Time saver

During the consultation for a nose job, the explanation of the entire procedure usually takes a long time. There are a lot of questions and answers as some terms are highly technical and hard for a layman to understand. But with virtual nose job, you see exactly what the doctor means when he says, ” the procedure necessitates the placing of grafts from rib, ear, nasal septal.” This is because you will see where these grafts will come from and where he intends to place them inside your nose. Nothing is unknown.

3. Less Fear of the Doubt

Fear of the Doubt is the most common diagnosis the moment you enter the surgical room. It makes you imagine complex scenarios of what is about to happen. The fact that you’re unconscious renders you to become more vulnerable. But with a virtual nose job, you know exactly what is going to happen because you’ve seen it all already, albeit virtually.

4. Free Access

Here is the most fun part. Before, you only could view your virtual nose job in your doctor’s office. Now, there are some websites that offer this for free! Yes, in lieu of watching a few advertisements, you can see what a nose job surgery is. You can even upload your picture. Just be aware though that what your doctor has in his office is infinitely more advanced and more specialized than the freebie sites. Your doctor’s software is technically superior because it was made especially for dermatologists and cosmetic surgeons.

Disadvantages

Yes, there are a few. The number one disadvantage to a virtual nose job is that it may not be100% accurate. This is because the computer program does not factor in what the actual conditions will be during the surgery itself and the actual operating skills of the doctor. It also operates on the assumption that the patient’s reaction to surgery are ideal. What a virtual nose job can give you is a reassurance of how it may look. Not how it will look with 100% accuracy.

Notwithstanding the disadvantages, the virtual nose job is recommended for those undergoing cosmetic surgery for the first time. This is because with this powerful computer program, the unknown is becoming less so.