This brief chapter discusses a piece of nasal
anatomy called the anterior nasal spine. The anterior nasal spine is a
protrusion of bone that juts out forward from the skull at the base of the nose.
Above right, it's the little spicule of bone at the very tip of the yellow
arrow.
In most noses the
anterior nasal spine is quite small and is ignored during the rhinoplasty
operation, but in some people it is essential to remove the anterior nasal spine
in order to get the nose short enough, or to bring the nose back closer to the
face, deprojecting the nose.
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