Introduction: Correction of Saddle nose deformity is one of the most challenging issues in facial plastic surgery.   Materials and Methods: In this study, a single structure in the form of L-strut was attempted to be created by using one 0.035" Kirschner wire and an autologous costal graft out of the 10th and 11th ribs. This study involved 13 cases, most of whom were traumatic. The corrective ...

Automatic sensing of gas distributions could be very useful for a number of industrial applications. However, while individual gas sensors can be relatively cheap, they can only cover a small area. To cover larger scale environments such as warehouses and factories with a fixed installation of sensors, an arbitrarily large number of sensors would be required, resulting in very high set-up costs...

IMPORTANCE Nasal airway obstruction is a common presenting symptom in otolaryngology and facial plastic surgery practices, and the potential for multiple contributing causes requires extensive evaluation. OBJECTIVE To develop a classification system for nasal obstruction using a subjective, validated quality-of-life instrument. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Retrospective study of patien...

Humans are able of distinguishing more than 5000 visual categories[10] even in complex environments using a variety of different visual systems all working in tandem[74]. We seem to be capable of distinguishing thousands of different odors as well [66, 93, 107]. In the machine learning community, many commonly used multi-class classifiers do not scale well to such large numbers of categories. T...

Esthetic reconstruction of cleft lip nose deformity is a challenging task in surgical management of patients with orofacial cleft. The author reconstructed cleft lip nose deformity effectively using autogenous auricular cartilage and a relatively new graft material of porcine dermal collagen, Permacol™. After correction of the deformed lower third of the nose with patient's auricular cartilage,...