Surface Techniques in Dorsal Preservation

Abstract

Classical dorsal preservation rhinoplasty is typically done with impaction osteotomies (push/let down) and a low septal strip. These approaches are potentially highly destabilizing maneuvers in the architecture of the nasal pyramid. This is one of the reasons why these approaches did not have a popular acceptance in the 1960s and 1970s. More recently, the surgeon interested in preservation rhinoplasty has the possibility to do so with surface techniques with more control and, if needed, is easily converted to the standard structured techniques if the surgeon does not feel safe with the procedure.

Keywords: dorsum; preservation; rhinoplasty; surface techniques.