[Rhinoplasty: preventable errors in the first 100 interventions and secondary correction]

The most frequent avoidable mistakes which a young rhinosurgeon commits concern the analysis of the patient's desire, the preoperative critical examination of the facial proportions, the choice of the surgical technique and the operative approach, the choice of the implantation material and the method of how to implant it in a form-fitting manner, overreductions or underreductions by osteotomy and mistakes in the course of postoperative change of the dressings. The way of avoiding these errors and the way of their secondary correction are presented. The principle of a secondary operation is a structural reorientation by a few minor surgical steps.