Abstract
Since 1996, cranial bone chips or septal bone chips harvested during septal deviation surgery and small chips of ear or septal cartilage have been used in 67 patients for dorsal nasal augmentation or for smoothing dorsal nasal irregularities. In this study, 59 overresections of ostecartilaginous nose structures during previous aesthetic nose surgeries and 8 primary rhinoplasties occasioned the use of bone or cartilage grafts. For 57 patients both bone and ear cartilage grafts were used for the reconstruction. Bone grafts were used for seven cases and cartilage grafts for three cases.
The results from 7 years, of experience with this method of nasal dorsum reconstruction were satisfactory and durable. The most important advantage of this method is that the bony side of the nose is reconstructed with bone and the cartilage side with cartilage. Another advantage is that the bone chips are incorporated with both nasal bones, building a strong dorsal nasal bony monoblack.
This technique also is useful for augmenting mild saddle nose deformity and dorsal nasal projection deficiency on the bony part, cartilage part, or both parts.
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Çelik, M., Haliloğlu, T. & Bayçın, N. Bone Chips and Diced Cartilage: An Anatomically Adopted Graft for the Nasal Dorsum. Aesth. Plast. Surg. 28, 8–12 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00266-004-3082-x
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