- Incisions
- Hump removal
- Nasal septum
- Tip narrowing
- The nasal bones
- Splint
- Tip support
- Shorten the nose
- The nasal spine
- Revision surgery
- The nasion
- Odd cartilages
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The Wide Nasal Tip |
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The second most common
change to make during a rhinoplasty, after removing a hump, is to decrease the
width of the tip of the nose. In this chapter, we'll take a closer look at
the tip of the nose and explore a few methods for narrowing a wide tip.
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Changing the width of the tip generally involves modifying the
tip cartilages. In the images above, her right lower lateral cartilage
(right tip cartilage) is outlined in blue. Her tip cartilages are strong,
so you can see this cartilage's outline in the picture on the left, too, pushing
up from underneath the skin.
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We can describe two
basic features of the lower lateral cartilage: its length and its width.
The length of the cartilage is represented by the length of the black
line above right, from one arrow to the other. Length of the cartilage is measured from the tip of
the nose along the cartilage out to where it ends on the side of the nose.
The width of the cartilage is measured along the red
line, from the lower edge of the cartilage to its upper edge.
Decreasing the width of the tip involves decreasing the width of the lower lateral cartilages. In another chapter, we'll discuss how decreasing the length of the lower lateral cartilages is a powerful technique to shorten the entire nose. |
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