Sight Foundation Lab, Level 2, North Block, Sydney Hospital, 8 Macquarie St, Sydney. Location details.
Faculty: Luiz Carlos Ishida, Abdulkadir Göksel, Rick Davis, Miloš Kovacevic, Olivier Gerbault, Richard Harvey, Phil Jumeau, Michael Zacharia, Kien Ha, Peter Callan, George Marcells, Andrew Greensmith, Sim Choroomi, Tuan Pham
Thursday 4th September 2025
| 1130-1200 | Registration & light lunch | |
| 1200-1210 | Welcome and briefing | |
| 1210-1230 | Preservation rhinoplasty complete | |
| 1230-1300 | Open the nose and ligament preservation | |
| 1300-1330 | Septoplasty and cartilage harvest | |
| 1330-1415 | Preservation dorsal reduction and Ishida technique | |
| 1415-1430 | Tools to fracture bones, piezo, osteotomes, saws | |
| 1430-1500 | Break | |
| 1500-1530 | Septal extension graft | |
| 1530-1630 | Tip configuration, crural overlap, crural steal, cranial tip sutures, tensioning | |
| 1630-1700 | Alar base excisions | |
| 1700 | Closing remarks | |
Friday 5th September 2025
| 0730-0755 | Registration | |
| 0755-1000 | Evolution of the modern rhinoplasty | |
| 0755-0800 | Convenors | Welcome |
| 0800-0840 | Davis | Nasal tip aesthetics |
| 0845-0915 | Kovacevic | Dorsal preservation and dorsal flattening |
| 0920-0940 | Ishida | The role of cartilaginous pushdown in the preservation rhinoplasty of the dorsum |
| 0945-0955 | Kovacevic | Rhinodesis |
| 1000-1030 | Break | |
| 1030-1230 | Evolution of the modern rhinoplasty | |
| 1030-1115 | Toriumi | Structural preservation rhinoplasty |
| 1120-1140 | Göksel | Anatomical considerations in rhinoplasty |
| 1145-1230 | Toriumi | Structural preservation rhinoplasty – Video |
| 1230-1330 | Lunch | |
| 1330-1500 | Important dorsal considerations | |
| 1330-1405 | Göksel | Dorsal preservation philosophy, indications, and blocking points |
| 1410-1425 | Ishida | Osteotomies in cartilaginous push down |
| 1430-1455 | Gerbault | Bone stability: a key to understanding bone defects and to adapt osteotomies to preservation and structure |
| 1500-1530 | Break | |
| 1530-1710 | Important tip consideration | |
| 1530-1555 | Kovacevic | Tip sutures and tip support |
| 1600-1615 | Ishida | Tip preservation rhinoplasty: importance of the ligaments in tip support |
| 1620-1635 | Göksel | Tip plasty in open and closed approach |
| 1640-1710 | Harvey | Picking, drug use and perforations:
everything a rhinoplasty surgeon should know |
| 1715-1745 | Meeting | AAFPS AGM (Members) |
| 1715-1900 | Cocktail party | |
Saturday 6th September 2025
| 0730-0755 | Registration | |
| 0755-1000 | Secondary rhinoplasty | |
| 0755-0800 | Convenors | Welcome |
| 0800-0900 | Toriumi | Secondary rhinoplasty – Time tested techniques |
| 0905-0945 | Davis | Recurvature and nasal valve |
| 0950-1000 | Panel | Discussion |
| 1000-1030 | Break | |
| 1030-1215 | Secondary rhinoplasty and difficult primary problems | |
| 1030-1100 | Toriumi | Managing the alar base |
| 1105-1120 | Göksel | Nostril repositioning |
| 1125-1135 | Gerbault | The use of pyriform ligament for lateral crural tensioning |
| 1140-1205 | Gerbault | Ultrasonic rhinoplasty and septoplasty – do we need all the inserts? |
| 1205-1215 | Panel | Discussion |
| 1215-1315 | Lunch | |
| 1315-1500 | A good nose will also have a good airway | |
| 1315-1355 | Davis | Tip tensioning |
| 1400-1430 | Marcells | Structured dome excision and tensioning |
| 1435-1450 | Ishida | Managing complex septal/nasal deviations
with preservation rhinoplasty |
| 1450-1500 | Panel | Discussion |
| 1500-1530 | Break | |
| 1530-1720 | What else can we use in our repertoire? | |
| 1530-1540 | Meller | How do autologous rib and rib allograft compare? |
| 1545-1615 | Kovacevic | PRF – Cartilage and fat transplants |
| 1620-1630 | Jumeau | The STIG graft – Management of the scroll in complex revisions |
| 1635-1655 | Göksel | Revision rhinoplasty tips & tricks |
| 1655-1715 | Panel | Discussion |
| 1715-1720 | Convenors | Close |
| 1830-2200 | Symposium Dinner (for delegates who have purchased tix) | |
For more information, please contact Isabel Perez isabel@aafps.com.au or direct on 0407 262 414.
