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09/07/2023 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/07/2023 11:23

Miguel Gonçalves Ferreira, editor in journal of reference

The Hospital da Luz surgeon, who devised an innovating rhinoplasty technique, was editor in the latest "Facial Plastic Surgery".

Miguel Gonçalves Ferreira, who developed the SRT surgical technique to treat "nasal bone hump", was guest editor in the latest issue of the scientific journal "Facial Plastic Surgery". The Hospital da Luz Arrábida and Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Santo António otorhinolaryngologist makes full and edits in the three most renowned world publications in the area, for he had already had prominent articles printed in "Laryngoscope" (in 2019) and in "Facial Plastic Surgery and Aesthetic Medicine" (in 2022), confirming the importance of his work on SRT.

Given the growing interest in medicine based on evidence, the surgeon has been dynamizing a think tank and the sharing of experiences, already integrating 1,500 rhinoplasty surgeons from different specialties and from all over the world. It was also thereupon that the journal "Facial Plastic Surgery" invited him as Guest Editor for its special issue on rhinoplasty, which was published last August.

The spare roof technique (SRT)

The most relevant dysmorphic feature in the Caucasian nose is the so-called "nasal bone hump". In this context, Miguel Gonçalves Ferreira devised in 2014 a new technique in rhinoplasty - the spare roof technique (SRT) -, which allows to correct the "nose hump" and simultaneously preserve important structures of the nose, such as the upper lateral cartilage. This technique was also the focus of his doctoral research project in Medical Sciences, that he concluded in 2020 at Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute (ICBAS), Porto University.

  • The SRT enables to get a uniformly flat and structurally stable nose dorsal, as shown through engineering calculations and the aesthetical and functional results obtained - published in the article selected for the cover of the North-American journal "The Laryngoscope" (article having Mariline Santos as first author, who also integrates the Otorhinolaryngology Service of Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Santo António).
  • The goal of Miguel Gonçalves Ferreira was to conceive a more precise, efficient, quick and less aggressive technique. After numerous tests on corpses and structural engineering interaction - in collaboration with an engineering study group from Minho University -, it was possible to develop this new technique presently widespread around the world.
  • Since 2014, three variants of the original technique have been developed, tested and published by Miguel Gonçalves Ferreira (which give greater versatility to SRT in response to the different deformities of the nasal pyramid, besides the "dorsal hump"):
    • The SRT-A, which allows the correction of the "dorsal hump" in patients with an S-shaped morphology of the nose bones, corresponding to approximately 60-80% of Caucasian noses;
    • The SRT-B (also known as "Ferreira-Ishida Technique"), for the correction of the "dorsal hump" in patients with a V-shaped morphology of the nose bones, corresponding to a minority of the Caucasian noses;
    • The SRT-Reverse, for the correction of a saddle nose, which can result from previous nasal surgeries, systemic diseases or nasal trauma.

"The Spare Roof Technique (A, B and Reverse) has been shown to be the most versatile preservation rhinoplasty technique, considering its multiple applications. Over these years, I have had the opportunity to promote and demonstrate it in several congresses all over the world, being presently applied in numerous international hospital centres of rhinoplasty", highlights Miguel Gonçalves Ferreira.