I have a bump between the medial and lateral crura on the right side that feels like its on the cartilage. It feel like a small ball. If I touch it, it kind of throbs and feels a little swollen. I fell into a habit of pushing my nose tip upwards and was wondering if I did it too hard could it damage the cartilage, and what is the treatment? If I touch the nose on both sides at the tip I only feel the bump on the right side.
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February 17, 2014
Answer: Small bump at tip of nose where lateral and medial crura meet, is this damage?
In general, I have found that either temporalis or dermal grafts do very well here. During the course of a typical rhinoplasty, it is fairly simple to gather some soft tissue from the fascia along the sidewall and transplant this. If a large volume is required, I tend to prefer...
I would recommend an in-person consult with a board certified rhinoplasty specialist. He or she may use computer imaging software to morph a photo of you, which will give you an idea of how the final result of surgery may appear. There are techniques that can help reduce the width of your nose,...
Good afternoon. After rhinoplasty (nasal surgery), the nose can become REALLY swollen, and this swelling can take a LONG TIME to resolve (up to 1-2 years to fully resolve). At the time of this question, only 1.5 weeks postop, there would still be a significant amount of swelling present. Most of...
