Get the real deal on beauty treatments—real doctors, real reviews, and real photos with real results.Here's how we earn your trust.
Cartilage grafts can be adherent to almost anything, but removing them is not particularly difficult in most cases. If your skin envelope has been compromised by pressure atrophy to the skin, this operation is trickier. Find a plastic surgeon with ELITE credentials who performs hundreds of rhinoplasties and rhinoplasty revisions each year. Then look at the plastic surgeon's website before and after photo galleries to get a sense of who can deliver the results. Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA
Cartilage grafts can be removed from the nose when necessary. There are usually dissected off of the underlying portion of the skin and then removed.
Usually grafts can be freed from the overlying skin soft tissue coverage relatively easily, but they can be difficult to sometimes remove as they adhere to the underlying structures.
The graft can warp, but swelling can always play a factor at this early time. If you found a reputable surgeon, I would trust the judgment of the surgeon. Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA
The question is not how many times but what was done and how it was done. What is the present condition of the nose and the skin. This has to be evaluated individually for each person. See experienced surgeons and get more than one opinion.
Removing lateral crural strut grafts can be performed. I would have to evaluate why they were placed in the revision. The correction of the inverted v is one thing and the placement of lateral crural grafts is another. Find...
