BACKGROUND In rhinoplasty, functional and cosmetic problems including imbalance between the nasal subunits and face are aimed to be corrected. So there is a need for careful preoperative evaluation and treatment of these patients. According to functional and aesthetic effects of these variables in rhinoplasty, evaluation of the frequency with focus to diagnostic methods was undertaken. METHOD...

Aesthetic rhinoplasty procedures have increased in frequency in the Asian population. Although aesthetic concepts differ for each race, the current concept of nasal beauty shows a tendency to coincide with that of Caucasians. The ideal, beautiful nose tends to have a straight dorsum from the radix to the tip, with an adequate height. The tip should be slightly more prominent than the dorsum, an...

The nasolabial cyst is classified as a fissural cyst, found outside the bone, and on the region corresponding to the nasolabial furrow and alar nose. This cyst is frequently asymptomatic with the most usual sign being alar nose elevation. In spite of the low occurrence of nasolabial cysts, it is important to recognize the clinical characteristics of this lesion. The purpose of this paper is to ...

Critics of comparative risk assessment (CRA), the increasingly common practice of juxtaposing disparate risks for the purpose of declaring which one is the "larger" or the "more important," have long focused their concern on the difficulties in accommodating the qualitative differences among risks. To be sure, people may disagree vehemently about whether "larger" necessarily implies "more serio...

BACKGROUND Injection of dermal fillers is one of the most commonly performed cosmetic procedures. Serious complications from fillers are rare but potentially devastating to patients and physicians. Skin necrosis, such as nasal alar necrosis, is one of the most feared serious complications of dermal fillers, but there is a paucity of literature on the incidence of such events, as well as potenti...

We report a case of an incidental nodular calcification of the alar ligament simulating a fracture in the craniovertebral junction of a previously healthy 24-year-old man. Three-dimensional CT and MR imaging revealed a 7.2 x 7.6 x 4.0 mm nodular calcification in the right alar ligament with normal adjacent bony structures. Serial cervical dynamic radiographs and open-mouth views showed that the...

Stal and Hollier [5] described the nasal support structure as a tripod with lateral displacement in the unilateral cleft lip and loss of tip definition. The cleft side tip defining point is inferiorly displaced with a wide intra alar distance. Early repair with an intra dermal suspension suture with limited alar dissection is advised through an infra cartilagenous incision. The repair has the a...

Rhinoplasty in the cleft lip nose is complicated because of the many features that go to make up a typical cleft deformity. The main problems that need to be considered are as follows: 1. The tip is deflected away from the cleft side. 2. The alar dome on the cleft side is depressed. 3. The ala is flat and buckled. 4. There is an absent alar/facial groove. 5. The nostrils are wide on the cleft s...

Facial cleft is the second most common congenital deformity. Problems of cleft can be related to esthetic, phonetics, functional insufficiency, emotional, psychological and social. Significant abnormality in nasal cartilage morphology and asymmetry of alar base and columella are associated with cleft lip and alveolar deformity. Pre Nasoalveolar molding (PNAM) is a nonsurgical method of reshapin...