Category: plastic surgery case study | 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…

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…

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…

Background: The shape of the nasal tip is primarily affected by its anatomic composition. The size, thickness and length of the lower alar cartilages create the major shape of the lower third of the nose. Combined with the thickness of the nasal skin over these cartilages the shape of the nasal tip is defined. The Read More…

Background: Rhinoplasty is a procedure that often requires some form of augmentation or structural supplement. Some surgeons perform this part of rhinoplasty using only autogenous materials such as cartilage grafts while other feel comfortable using synthetic implants. There is is no right or wrong in the debate between autologous vs implant augmentation in rhinoplasty although Read More…

Background: The wide variety of nose shapes that exist around the world have been attempted to be classified by multiple approaches. One type of nasal shape classification,  known as leptorrhine, mesorrhine and platyrrhine, are based on the nasal indices. The nasal index is the ratio of the widest part of the nose to its length Read More…

Background: Rhinoplasty encompasses a wide variety of bone and cartilage reshaping techniques to change the external appearance of the nose. Bone and cartilage can be reduced in size or reshaped from its present form. In addition, a variety of autologous, allogeneic or synthetic grafts can be added to create nasal augmentative changes. But the one Read More…

Background: Rhinoplasty can achieve many different types of nasal changes. The classic requested changes would be reduction of a prominent hump or bump and making the tip smaller, more refined and usually shorter. Straightening of a crooked nose is also a common request and is done as part of any other nasal shape change. These Read More…