Vakhtang's son · 25 years of practice
Zurab Khutsidze
Plastic and aesthetic surgeon, with a painter's sight that runs in the family and a surgeon's steady hand of his own.
Career
- 1990–2001 — practiced at clinic “Tsope” in Tbilisi.
- Since 2001 — conducts plastic and aesthetic surgery in Moscow.
- Since 2016 — returns to Tbilisi during annual visits to continue his father's practice, alongside aesthetic and functional rhinoplasty and blepharoplasty.
To arrange a consultation in Tbilisi, contact Clinic Tsope directly. For Moscow, see www.khutsidze.ru.
In his own words
Welcome to my page, where I write about plastic and aesthetic surgery — specifically, nasal plastic surgery, or rhinoplasty. My interest in this field comes from my father's professional life; he later became my teacher and colleague. In 1956, in Soviet times known for a strict attitude toward innovation, my father — a young, already successful otolaryngologist named Vakhtang Khutsidze, known to everyone as “Doctor Tsope” — dared to perform nasal plastic surgery on a young artist. Operating with the innovative endonasal method (no cutting of the skin on the surface of the nose, the so-called “closed approach”) required great courage. The outcome was a total success: the patient's satisfaction and gratitude were immense, and endonasal rhinoplasty became a fixture of his practice from then on.
On this page you'll also find information about the nose and about rhinoplasty more broadly. There's a 1984 documentary by Moscow film-makers L. Bakradze and L. Gurevich, “Make Me Beautiful!”, that follows two very different patients — a young, ambitious Moscow artist and a more modest Georgian woman from a village — and how completely both came to trust Dr. Tsope. The film is still relevant today: it captures the emotional reality behind the question I still hear all the time — “Do I need a different nose?”
Zurab Khutsidze