Rhinoplasty Before & After Case 1433

This 37 year old patient asked Dr. Parker to improve the appearance of his nose as well as his obstructed breathing in his left nostril. The patient requested a smaller nose with the dorsal hump gone, straighten his crooked nose, set back his nasal tip, yet retain his ethnicity. At surgery, Dr. Parker reduced the bony-cartilaginous hump, rounding his bony edges with rasps avoiding infractures which would have over-narrowed the nose. He performed a septoplasty to help straighten the nose, improve the patient’s breathing and harvested septal cartilage to be used in the nasal tip area. Dr. Parker carved the septal cartilage into a septal extension graft to support the nasal tip as well as for lateral crural strut grafts to help set back the tip and support it. The patient said the recovery was not as bad as he imagined. He is very happy with his markedly improved, natural looking nose with objectives met and ethnicity maintained. He says is breathing is much better now as well.