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EUGENIO A. AGUILAR, III, MD
Houston

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1987;113(9):919.

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Fred J. Stucker, MD, Shreveport, La, at the Denver meeting of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, reviewed the problems inherent with rhinoplasty in non-white patients. The most frequent problem in this group is the acute nasal-labial angle secondary to a shallow premaxilla. Of 336 patients, nasallabial angle grafts were used in 91%, with the columellar site receiving implants in 89%. Alar bases were used in 65%, and dorsal grafting was used in 55%. The nasal-labial angle outcome was consistently poor in its augmentation effects over the long term, the dorsum was consistently good, and the columella was fair. Dr Stucker stated that more studies were needed to develop an implant that would achieve the desired results in the nasal-labial angle in a non-white nose. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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