I had rhinoplasty surgery eight years ago and today I went for a revision rhinoplasty consultation(different doctor) he checked my nose for cartilage and said that they did not leave any Cartilage in it from the previous surgery, he also said that he could take some from the ear but in my case he couldn't find anything in my nose and recommended that i don't do it again because it will be very weak and it could collapse, so I was wondering how true is this?
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March 31, 2017
Answer: Ear cartilage use for revision rhinoplasty?
I might be likely wrong, of course, but as per how your nostrils look fron underneath, so fake and unnaturally stretched forwardly, and how your tip points and is projected, I'd bet your surgeon applied a strut graft with random criterion in a non-indicated case, this means unnecessarily... in a...
Thanks for the images, they are the ones I meant.I think you can get even a better profile and dorsum than you had before (I mean the profile view).Your supratip is currently thick and broad, but your middle vault is pinched, a contradiction? not that much:-the broadness of the middle vault is...
I am sorry that the outcome of your septorhinoplasty was not as good as expected. A depressed or caved in nasal bone can sometimes be easily fixed by repositioning it (after performing the necessary osteotomies) and holding it in place with some absorbable packing. Many times grafting is...