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Cadaver rib graft is extensively processed to make it inert and sterile. It would be highly unlikely for anyone to get an infection from these products.
It is definitely possible to get a herpes viral infection after nasal surgery during which a cadaveric rib graft was used. However, in such an event, the herpes infection was not transmitted by the cadaveric rib graft but instead the result of surgical stress causing virus activation and clinical infection in a person previously infected with the herpes virus. It is recommended that these patients be treated prophylactically with antiviral drugs before and after the surgery. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon that many people are unaware that they have been previously infected and are carriers of the virus.Mario J. Imola, MD, DDS, FRCSC, FACS.
I believe that Cadaver tissues are radiated which denatures DNA. A virus to cause an infection must inject its DNA into a cell which uses the cell's machinery to makemore virus. Irradiated DNA can't do this. Therefore it would be almost impossible to get Herpes from a graft
Septal perforations range in size and symptoms. Typically, posterior septal perforations can be left alone that are asymptomatic while the more anterior the perforation the more likely it will become symptomatic. If a perforation is stable in size (especially if the patients is using nasal s...
Hello.It is way too early to tell just yet.It may very well be swelling.Give it some time, after 3 months or so you'll have a better idea of what your result is.Good luck. Dr. G
Sorry, I don't really mean to be oppositional but...Your nose looks great. The "slope" is so slight that it's all but imperceptible. The injection wouldn't make the bridge thinner, it wouldn't help with the "excess skin" on the sides. It would only harm your nose. It can't be controlled well...
Dear Azi2015, Thank you for your clinical post and photograph. From the photograph it does appear that at this early phase you have underlying reaction to a non-absorbable or absorbable suture or even a piece of trapped superficial epidermal tissue which can lead to an epidermal cyst. These...
Following rhinoplasty surgery, there are many changes that occur in throughout the healing process. In your case, it may be that some of the rhinoplasty sutures or rhinoplasty grafts have moved slightly over this 2 year period. Skin tightening procedures will probably not be very helpful to i...
A nasal fracture can be repaired at any time after the injury to repair a crooked nose. Osteotomies of the nasal bones are required to straighten them. Cartilage spreader grafts are required to be placed underneath the concave lateral cartilage in the mid vault area creating...
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