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BACKGROUND Research shows that career choices are made as a result of preconceived ideas and exposure to a specialty. If plastic surgery is to continue to attract the best, factors that may dissuade the millennial generation medical students from pursuing plastic surgery as a career must be identified and addressed. We explored the determinants of interest in plastic surgery as a career choice ...

The caudalmost section of the cartilaginous nasal septum performs the important function of supporting the middle and lower third of the nose. Its absence leads inevitably to deformation of the nasal pyramid and collapse of the internal nasal valve. The most frequent causes of its loss are iatrogenic and traumatic, and the mucoperichondrial lining remains intact in most cases. A graft of concha...