After my first rhinoplasty a small bump formed with an indent. My surgeon said he could do another procedure ( it's just a small touch up) he said the bump is mainly cartilage and can trim it/shave it down and put alloderm over my bridge since I have very thin skin. I don't know much about alloderm but someone on reddit said after her revision where they used alloderm a new bump formed. Can this happen with alloderm? What risks does alloderm pose?
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Sometimes it's much better to have the chance to *feel* a nose, but just from these photos, here goes: the very very tip of the nose seems narrow-ish, that prominence of cartilage at the very tip of the nose that we saw in the before photo, too, especially the smiling ones, which pull the skin...
A septal extension involves putting cartilage in the nose that wasn't there before, and that cartilage can obstruct the breathing. It's hard to know why the nose is runny. One explanation is that there was a change in the airflow pattern, and some of the soft tissue in your nose is getting less...
Yes if needed in addition to ear and rib cartilage fascia and pericondrium (soft tissues for camouflage and finesse recontouring) are frequently used as a routine . Autologous material is simply the best
