Introduction & Objective: Rhinoplasty is the most common surgery in the facial plastic surgery . We suspect to have a lot of personality disorder in the rhinoplastic patients , so we design this study for finding the relationship between rhinoplasty and personality disorders.
Material & Methods: This study were done on a group of 60 patients had referred to Amir ـ Aalam hospital in Tehran for rhinoplasty and a group of 60 persons in were in Amir ـ Aalam hospital for other purposes as a control group. Two groups were same age, gender, economy and educations. We have done this study with Minnesota personality test (MMPI).
Results: We find out Iranian rhinoplastic patients have three personality disorders, compare to control group. Immature personality were found 21.6% in rhinoplastic patients compare 1.6% in control group (p<0.01). Seclusion 18.3% in rhinoplastic patients compare to 3.3% in control group (p<0.05). Hypochondriasis 20% in rhinoplastic patients compare to 6.6% in control group (p<0.01).
Conclusion:Personality disorders are very common in rhinoplastic patients and knowledge about personality of patients before operation is very important. We recommend study about personality of patients before every rhinoplastic surgery.
Naraghi M, Kazemi M, Rohani M, Kazemi A, Alameh F, Malekzadeh J et al . Comparing Personality Specifies of Rhinoplastic Patients with Control Group in Amir ـ Aalam Hospital. armaghanj 2006; 10 (4) :93-99 URL: http://armaghanj.yums.ac.ir/article-1-764-en.html