Advanced Septoplasty: Augmentation of cartilage deficient nose after multiple sports injuries.

Augmentation Rhinoplasty after complete destruction  or dissolution of Septal cartilage necessitates surgeries with a high potential for morbidity. The most popular choice of material has been costal cartilage, irradiated cadaver cartilage or alloplastic material. This is the first use of PDS foil scaffolding for conchal cartilage graft in Ireland where two cases of septal cartilage replacement were successfully acheived. PDS foil has been used in the nose before and the pioneering work by Miriam Boenisch and Gilbert Nolst Trenite is remarkable …

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