Surgeons Explore New Ideal Of Beauty

“Lemme get a gander at that there schnozzle under your Stetson, partner” might be overheard this week in Houston during Rodeo Rhinoplasty, four days of physician training on every aspect of the nose job.

Houston's racial and ethnic diversity — providing an international range of noses — makes the city an ideal location for a seminar exploring surgical techniques and modern beauty standards, said Dr. Russell Kridel, a Houston plastic surgeon who founded the annual conference last year.

“What we think is beautiful is changing,” he said. “We have to know that so we can achieve what that beauty is. You can't think that everyone wants to have a long, thin nose.”