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Avoiding the Beverly Hills Rhinoplasty Saddle Nose
By admin | September 18, 2009
Avoiding the Beverly Hills Rhinoplasty Saddle Nose
A rhinoplasty saddle nose occurs because the internal supports have been weakened or removed. The upper bridge of the nose is bone but the lower portion of the bridge of the nose is cartilage. If too much of the septum underneath either is removed, there will be a collapse of the bones and/or collapse of the upper lateral cartilages which rests upon the septum and when they “fall” into the nose, the outside appearance looks like a saddle.
Assuming that the breathing has not been impaired, the correction is by insertion of the patient’s own or transplanted tissue. Some surgeons prefer bone. Others prefer cartilage and some use another material, from under the skin, called fascia. Or one can insert a custom-made or custom-trimmed prosthetic part. Generally these are solid medical-grade silicone, the same material that is used in artificial heart valves and artificial joints. It can be sculpted to the size of the saddle-depression and then tucked underneath the skin through internal nasal incisions. Afterwards, there is no saddle and the profile is straight. But an alternative is filling injections. Temporary injections are fine but most patients coming to Beverly Hills for revision rhinoplasty certainly are also offered the possibility of a permanent filling injection. Medical grade liquid silicone which has been used in the United States for over 50 years, in droplet form, is a very practical solution to correcting a saddle nose post-rhinoplasty.
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