(n.) Plastic surgery of the nose to correct deformity or to replace lost tissue. Tissue may be transplanted from the patient's cheek, forehead, arm, etc., or even from another person.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors recall the advantages of low transcartilage incision in rhinoplasty and, by means of several technical details, illustrate the value of this approach in submucosal dissection.
(2) The operatory technic used is very classic: septoplasty as the first step, then rhinoplasty by extra mucosal way, with paramedial and lateral osteotomies allowing rebuilding of nasal osseous pyramid.
(3) One of the instruments used for osteotomies of the nasal bones in rhinoplasty is the saw.
(4) Almost any forms of complete clefts require a rhinoplasty in spite of good primary results with modern methods of operation in the labial region.
(5) One of the most annoying complications of rhinoplasty is the supra-tip hump (pollybeak).
(6) A rhinoplasty technique is proposed to maintain the integrity of the nasal ridge and to retain the natural appearance of the nose.
(7) Over the past 14 years, from January of 1975 to December of 1988, we have done 1263 aesthetic rhinoplasties using ear cartilage.
(8) The external rhinoplasty approach has been utilized in three young children for the correction of unilateral choanal atresia.
(9) A numerical formula is proposed which allows for deviation from the common system of evaluating appearance in measuring support for an application for rhinoplasty.
(10) Overall, open rhinoplasty technique can provide many distinct advantages in certain nasal deformities with no real disadvantages over conventional closed techniques.
(11) The ready recourse to these grafts, so much in vogue at the present time in primary rhinoplasties, should be carefully and completely re-examined, since the final result very frequently yields no real benefits and may permanently deface the area from which the cartilage has been taken.
(12) Thus, the number of revision rhinoplasties increases.
(13) Less successful results were obtained with naso-labial lines or lesions of excess tissue after rhinoplasty.
(14) In maxillary protrusion, simultaneous osteotomy and rhinoplasty have halved the surgical procedures required.
(15) A case of permanent damage to the infraorbital nerve during rhinoplasty is reported.
(16) Often the patient believes rhinoplasty alone will improve the unpleasant profile.
(17) We consider resection of the musculus depressor septi nasi to be invaluable in rhinoplasty: -- firstly, to keep the tip of the nose well positioned during; -- secondly, to prevent certain "pseudo crow's-bill" deformities; -- finally, to give an impression of length to certain short upper (white ?)
(18) No magic is involved in rhinoplasty; the surgeon's incision, removals, and additions, plus scar formation and contraction, produce the results.
(19) The frontal protrusion is corrected by osteotomy, the vertical and anteroposterior facial disproportion by bimaxillary procedures, the nasal deformity by rhinoplasty or skull bone grafting, and the macroglossia by tongue resection.
(20) This is an investigative study of the personality of patients requesting cosmetic rhinoplasty.