Cosmetic surgery procedures, such as letting a patient sit or stand while incision sites are marked to blend into the body's natural lines, can further improve the aesthetic effect of thyroid surgery.

The majority of thyroid surgery patients are women, with large number of women compared to men, and many are concerned about the cosmetic outcome. All of the patients were asked to sit up and have their incision sites noted.

Among the other methods used were:

• Trimming traumatized edges at the incision sites. The objective, especially with minimal-access procedures, is to tailor the incision to the size of the disease rather than a one-size-fits-all approach, as was the case with thyroid surgery just five or six years ago, with a large incision for everyone.As surgeons remove huge nodules from relatively small incisions, the skin borders can tear.
• Using surgical glues instead of sutures. Using the adhesive, you may line up edges and get them precisely apposed without the possibility of railroad-tracking. Tracks left by conventional sutures or staples are referred to. Patients also benefit since they don't have to return on a specific date to have their sutures removed; instead, they just peel them off.
• Keeping the surrounding skin as trauma-free as possible. The traditional method for accessing the thyroid gland is to elevate the skin to the hyoid bone above the Adam's apple and down to the clavicles, then operate on the muscles that surround the thyroid gland in the throat, separate them, and finally get down to the gland. But all that tissue lifting, referred known as flaps, means praying it will fall back into place as it should.
• We realised that you don't have to raise and lower those flaps all the way up and down. We make our incision, go all the way down to the muscles, separate them, perform the necessary operation, and then close them. It saves time during surgery, reduces dissection, and eliminates the need to create a large opening that we hope would close on its own.
• Using drains as little as possible. Since the invention of thyroid surgery, drains have been utilised to treat post-surgical leaking.
• Rather than removing the entire thyroid, it was once usual to leave a small rind, if you will, of the thyroid remain. The goal was that the residual tissue would lessen, if not completely eliminate, the requirement for thyroid medication in the future. The truth is that the patients were put on medication, and the rind frequently caused oozing and repeated sickness.

Although there is still anticipation for using these smaller incisions to perform thyroid surgery, it is likely that using well-known cosmetic concepts is just as vital for attaining ideal results.