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Plastic Surgery Case Study – Asian Rib Graft Rhinoplasty

Background: Rhinoplasty often involves augmentation maneuvers to raise the profile of the nose. This is true in many ethnic rhinoplasties, particularly Asians noses. With short nasal bones and a flatter dorsum, the entire profile of the nose can be more recessed. A low dorsum is often associated with a flatter and broader nasal tip as Read More…

Techniques in Diced Cartilage Graft Rhinoplasty (Turkish Delight)

Significant augmentative rhinoplasty of the dorsum usually poses a choice between a synthetic implant and a rib cartilage graft. When choosing a rib cartilage graft, the options are to use it as a carved solid graft or to dice it and assemble it as a moldable wrapped cartilage graft. Introduced back in 1989, a finally Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Silver Rhinoplasty

  Background: Many anti-aging facial procedures are done in middle aged patients or older. Whether it be a facelift or blepharoplasties, it take some aging to need these procedures to help turn back the clock. But when it comes to rhinoplasty, it is usually the opposite. This facial restructuring procedure is often done in younger Read More…

Diced Rib Graft Rhinoplasty and Rectus Fascia Wrap

Reconstruction of the dorsum or bridge of the nose is one of the important areas of a good looking nose. Where it is needed for aesthetic augmentation of a congenitally flatter nose or in secondary reconstruction where the dorsum has become resected or flattened, rhinoplasty requires a graft or implant. An autogenous graft of cartilage Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Female Middle Eastern Rhinoplasty

Background: Ethnic rhinoplasty is a term used to describe nasal reshaping surgery for specific type noses based on racial background or country(s) or origin. The Middle East is made up of a wide variety of countries and cultures whose nose shapes can be as varied as the collection of countries that make up the region. Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Female Nasal Implant Augmentation Rhinoplasty

Background: Rhinoplasty surgeries fundamentally fall into the three main types, reductive, rehaping and augmentative. A reductive rhinoplasty is where bone and cartilage tissues are removed and none are added and the overall goal is to make the entire nose smaller. A reshaping rhinoplasty is where most of the manipulations are done by suturing and small Read More…

Case Study – Rib Graft Cleft Septorhinoplasty

Background: While patients born with cleft lip and palate have obvious lip, jaw and palate abnormalities, the nose that sits above it is equally affected. It may not be actually cleft but it suffers a variety of well described asymmetries and deficiencies. Internally, the septum is severely deviated away from the cleft side which results Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – The Hump Reduction Rhinoplasty

Background: Rhinoplasty is one of the most common facial plastic surgery procedures performed. It is also the dominant facial reshaping procedure that has been performed for over a century. Historically and up to the present day removal of a hump or a lowering of the bridge of the nose is one of the most common Read More…

Case Study – Asian Nasal Implant Rhinoplasty

  Plastic SurgeryBackground: The need for augmentation of the nose can be due to congenital, traumatic or iatrogenic saddle nose deformities or for elective ethnic rhinoplasty surgery. Ethnic rhinoplasty indications are usually for the Asian or African-American patient in my practice and are dorsal line augmentations that usually involve the tip as well. The debate Read More…

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