For rhinoplasty surgeons, surgery of the dorsum has never been so dynamic or as easily learned. Reproducible techniques offer excellent results that can be difficult to achieve in certain patients using component reduction. An expanding repertoire of dorsal preservation (DP) techniques is evolving. Each DP operation builds on the others. To understand DP requires a new appreciation of the cartilaginous septum, the perpendicular plate of ethmoid, nasal osteotomies, and anatomy of the nose where surgeons do not operate with traditional component reduction. The result is more beautiful noses where the normal anatomy is preserved.