Rhinoplasty Before & After Case 1551

This 20 year old, referred to Dr. Parker by another patient, requested improvement in the appearance of her nose and right sided decreased breathing. She would like her crooked nose straighter, hump gone but tip minimally changed. She says her breathing is always reduced on the right side, left side fine. She says when working out vigorously she feels like the right nostril collapses. At surgery, Dr. Parker performed the following maneuvers to address the patient’s concerns: he reduced the excess bone and cartilage (dorsal hump) with a component reduction to improve her profile, then lateral percutaneous osteotomies to help straighten her crooked nose, a septoplasty to also help straighten her crooked nose as well as with harvest of septal cartilage for grafting, creation of spreader flaps to help open the internal valves, insertion of alar contour grafts to strengthen her alar rims and external valves. The patient was pleasantly surprised by the relative ease and speed of her recovery. She loves the appearance of her nose as well as her markedly improved breathing.