Dr Fuller in Fort Myers, Florida

Name: James H. Fuller, MD
Last name: Fuller
Gender: Male
Began aesthetic medicine in: 1970
Years experience: 53
Primary Specialty: Facial Plastic Surgeon
Business: Ear, Nose, and Throat Specialists of Florida, P.A.
Address: 39 Barkley Cir
Phone: +1 239-936-1616
City: Fort Myers
State: Florida
Zip Code: 33907-7531
Country: US
Additional Address: 15761 New Hampshire Court
Fort Myers, Fl 33908
Consulting Fees: -1$
Consultation note: insurance billed
Has Sponsored Offer : No

Clinical Privileges: 
  • Lee Memorial Hospitals System
Education: 
  • Undergraduate:
  • B.A., Murray State University
  • Medical School:
  • M.D., University of Kentucky
Postdoc Training: 
  • Internship:
  • University Medical Center-UFHSC
  • Residency:
  • General Surgery, University Medical Center-UFHSC
  • Jacksonville Hospitals Education Program – University Hospital of Jacksonville, FL
  • Otolaryngology, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio – Western Reserve
  • Cleveland, OH

James H. Fuller, MD

Board Certification: 
James Howe Fuller (ABMSUID – 457480)
Viewed: 5/10/2009 CST

Day of birth: 10/14/1939

Status: Alive

Certification:
American Board of Otolaryngology

Otolaryngology – General
Status: Certified

Active Lifetime Initial Certification 09/30/1970 –

Education: 1965 MD (Doctor of Medicine)

Location: 39 Barkley Cir
0Fort Myers, FL 33907-7531 (United States)

GPS coordinates on map: 26.5299,-81.69069672

Primary location: 
Location name: Fort Myers
State: FL
Country: US
Map point: 26.5299,-81.69069672
Treatments: 
  • Ear Surgery
  • Eyelid Surgery
  • Genioplasty
  • Revision Rhinoplasty
  • Rhinoplasty
  • Septoplasty

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Profile views: 2025
Answer count: 14
Review count: 0
Star rating: 2.0473720558371
Anonymous votes: 5
Offer count: 0
Profile created: Mar 20, 2009
Profile modified: Oct 2, 2019
Profile promotion: No
Profile inactive: No
Premier status: Free
Tier: Free-Claimed
RealCare Promise: No
Directory link: Facial Plastic Surgeon, Board Certified in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
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Doctor Designation Start Time: Nov 1, 2011
Doctor Designation End Time: Jan 1, 2033

Locations

  • Fort Myers, FL, US. GPS coordinates: 26.5299,-81.69069672

Doctor’s answers

Question
Answer Header & Date
Answer Snippet
Tip Swelling After Surgery, What Can I Do?
Large tip or nose
Apr 29, 2012
One's ethnicity must be considered in any rhinoplasty. To me your entire nose is a little large – not just the tip. It would be helpful to see before pictures! However,my ideal, or any other surgeon's ideal, is not always appropriate to the patient.

Whether or not you had a tip rhinoplasty if that is all you want addressed I believe you could have that redone with success. Even if you did not have tip work I would wait until at least 18 months from the…

Is This Rhinoplasty Outcome Reasonably Achievable?
Is this Rhinoplasty Outcome Reasonably Achievable?
Apr 29, 2012
I think your computer modeling provides a great goal. This is a good starting point to discuss your ideal with your surgeon, However, skin thickness and other issues may prevent an exact match.
Is It Possible to Make the Nose Pointed Again?
Tip Revision
Apr 29, 2012
Probably, there is significant change with further definition of the tip the first six months and some out to eighteen months or longer. I would wait until at least eighteen months after the original surgery.
Had Rhinoplasty 4 Years Ago, Still I Feel Nose is Too Wide, Slightly Droopy and Slightly Asymmetric
Revision of wide upper tip with hanging tip
Mar 4, 2012
The pictures presented are not adequate for a full evaluation, but it looks to me that the upper tip (lateral cartilaginous framework) is too wide and that the tip projection is too long. This can be corrected with a revision tip rhinoplasty. The only concern is what cartilage framework remains from the previous surgery. A cartilage graft could possibly be needed if the cartilages are too severely missing.
How Long Before I Can Surgically Repair an “Acute Nasal Fracture”
Acute displaced nasal fractures
Mar 4, 2012
Acute displaced nasal fractures should be reduced within two weeks. My ideal time is ten days except a little sooner in a child and a little longer if there is massive swelling and bruise or lacerations. At that point the swelling is usually down so the reduction can be done with visual cues and by feel, and the bones usually stay in place nicely without packing or splinting. I generally do this in the office for patients who are comfortable with the…
Septorhinoplasty and Blue Cross Blue Shield
Insurance and Rhinoplasty
Mar 19, 2011
This is a little complicated.

Most insurance companies, including BC/BS of Florida will pay for a rhinoplasty within a year of the injury for a deformity arising from a fracture that occurred while the insurance was in effect. My practice is to incorporate any reasonable patient request into the procedure. One must understand that insurance companies do not reimburse enough to cover the cost of a cosmetic rhinoplasty. Then there is the problem of the doctor not being able to bill the…

Difference between closed and open Rhinoplasty?
Open vs. Closed rhinoplasty
Aug 17, 2009
I think this is a matter of training; I am of the old school. I am comfortable with the closed technique. Pick your surgeon and let him do what is comfortable to him.
Would additional Revision Rhinoplasty be recommended?
Revision rhinoplasty
Aug 1, 2009
You have a very masculine face and a masculine nose to match. Unless some defect is hidden on the frontal view only I would say, no.
Will ear cartilage regrow in ear after it is used in Rhinoplasty?
Can ear cartilage regrow?
Aug 1, 2009
In a word, No, but I remove ear cartilage frequently – more often for cancer resection followed by a full thickness skin graft than for nasal use. There may be a soft feeling when it is palpated, but there is no resulting deformity. The skin incision is easily hidden when cartilage is harvested for a graft.
Pros and cons of Gore-tex and sillicone in Rhinoplasty?
Gore-Tex vs. silicone vs. autograft nasal implants
Jul 16, 2009
There is no question that the patient’s own tissue is the safest, but even it can absorb. The main problem is the morbidity of the donor site.
Silicone has about a 10% incidence of extrusion, sometimes even without minor trauma.
I like Gore-Tex. I have had one extrusion and that came about because of trauma to a pre-exixting divot or scar in the patient’s nose. When I have gone back in to place a larger implant, as I did once, I found the Gore-Tex implant solidly in place and infiltrated…
Doctor performed Septoplasty on wrong side of the nose?
“Wrong side” septoplasty
Jun 22, 2009
I do not have an answer to the persistent obstruction, but the septum is a mid-line structure. I personally make an incision on both sides, but many right handed doctors operate though the left side only. That does no mean that the doctor operated on the wrong side.
Talk to your surgeon about the perceived persistent obstruction which may disappear after six weeks or so.
Would fixing deviated septum be considered a cosmetic procedure?
Septoplasty is not cosmetic
Jun 6, 2009
Absolutely not!  Although, I have had to defend it to some insurance companies. There is, however, often an associated external deformity that takes a Rhinoplasty, and the insurance companies get away with calling the Rhinoplasty cosmetic. 
Can Tip Rhinoplasty correct asymmetrical cartilage?
Asymmetrical tip cartilages
May 30, 2009
A major goal of rhinoplasty is symmetry. Certainly your asymmetrical tip can be corrected and most likely without bone work. I would want to see the whole face including the profile before committing to only correcting the tip. Someone has already pointed out that a perfect nose is a rarity. It is best you accept improvement – not perfection.
Rhinoplasty for broken nose?
“C” shaped nasal deformities
May 22, 2009
"C" shaped nasal deformities are the most difficult rhinoplasties I encounter. There is a memory to the septal deformity that is always present in my experience. I correct the septal deformity as best possible with a septoplasty and perform lateral and medial osteotomies (re-break in lay terms). There is as much as a 10% chance that there will be some shift back in the same direction in the healing process. Sorry!

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