Method of surgically implanting a contour nasal implant

Details Method of surgically implanting a contour nasal implant Method of surgically implanting a contour nasal implant

1988-07-15

1990-07-03

Green, Randall L.

Surgery

Miscellaneous

Methods

623 10, A61B 1900

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049382349

ABSTRACT:
A method is disclosed for surgically implanting a contour nasal implant into a nose of a patient to elevate the nasal tip and to augment and to improve the frontal and profile views of the patient's nose. The method comprises the steps of drawing, onto the nose of a patient into which a contour nasal implant is to be surgically implanted, a line connecting the highest points of the superior palpebral sulci such that the line crosses the nasal dorsum at a point representing the nasion and the highest point of implant insertion; placing two pledgets in each nostril in the nose of the patient; performing an open rhinoplasty incision into the skin located between the nostrils of the patient; retracting superiorly the columella skin off of the lower lateral cartilages on each side of the nostril up to the highest point of the natural dome of the nose of the patient; dissecting the skin off of the dorsum of the nose to the line previously drawn across the nasal dorsum; inserting a contour nasal implant having an elongated central member having a dorsal section, a predetermined shaped tip and a keel having a selected width and length which is located under the predetermined shaped tip with the keel thereof extending downward between the lower lateral cartilage until the desired implantation position is obtained; and suturing the rhinoplasty incision in the skin between the nostrils.

REFERENCES:
patent: D263747 (1982-04-01), Jaramillo et al.
patent: D270759 (1982-09-01), Straith
patent: D286910 (1986-11-01), Black

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