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Necessary To Cut Upper Lip Muscle
Is it necessary for upper lip muscle to be cut? If it doesn't , would it result in a drooping tip or displaced cartilage tip grafts during facial animation or tension?
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Cutting the depressor nasi muscle
Although it is hard to comment without seeing your pictures, cutting the depressor nasi muscle is not always necessary to lift and stabilize the tip of the nose
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Necessary To Cut Upper Lip Muscle (depressor septi)
Yes, in droopy noses that droop even more when smiling, cutting the depressor septi muscles is necessary to acheve proper tip rotation and positioning.
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Cutting Depressor Nasi Muscle
The depressor nasi muscle is cut to minimize the inferior rotation of the tip with smiling or facial animation. There is little risk with this procedure. It is not necessary but discuss this alternative with your surgeon before the operation.
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Cutting the upper lip muscles is not a routine part of rhinoplasty. I do it when people complain hat there tip drops when smiling. This procedure must be acompanied by a good tip support procedure
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Cutting the muscle can help
Cutting the muscle does prevent the tip to rotate downward with facial animation like smiling. This is a big issue for some patients who tell me they don't like the way they look in photographs or profile pictures. Cutting the muscle is a technique I discuss with patients pre operatively, but I give them a choice as to whether it will be done. There are few draw backs or potential risks to the procedure except for post op swelling.
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Is it necessary to cut upper lip muscle during Rhinoplasty
No, it's not necessary, nor a set part of a Rhinoplasty to cut or even to dissect the upper lip muscles unless part of the Rhinoplasty plan is to place cartilage or some other graft material to fill in a retracted columella. Similarly, when the upper lip is dissected in that manner...it should not decrease the tip support. Dissecting in this space can however, create additional space for batton and strut grafts to fall into if they are not secured with tissue glue or...
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