OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Patients with empty nose syndrome experience considerable discomfort in their daily lives and treatment is difficult for their physicians. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the outcome of an empty nose syndrome treatment via reconstruction of the inferior turbinate with porous polyethylene (Medpor). DESIGN AND METHOD A prospective self-controlled study was conduc...

Internal cranial anatomy is a challenging area to study in fossilized skulls because of small sample sizes and varied post-mortem preservational alterations. This difficulty has led to the lack of correspondence between results obtained from direct osteological observation and from more indirect reconstruction methods. This paper presents corroborating evidence from direct osteological observat...

BACKGROUND: Nasal reconstruction remains one of the most challenging aspects of facial plastic surgery. Resurfacing of nasal defect should include a consideration of the principle of aesthetic subunits. Nasal defect can be reconstructed by local, regional, and distant flaps and the size and depth of the defects (partial or full thickness) are important for choosing the flap. Although nasolabial...

Over the past decade surgery for sinonasal malignancies encroaching into the anterior skull base (ASB) has evolved from open craniofacial resection to the use of minimally invasive transnasal endoscopic approaches. Using these techniques, ASB reconstruction is most often performed in a multilayer fashion with autologous free grafts (fascia lata or iliotibial tract) which leads to the production...

Saddle nose deformity due to gunshot injury is a challenging problem for the maxillofacial surgeon. Because of the severe damage to the soft and bony tissues, the reconstructive options are very limited. In the present case report, a saddle nose deformity sustained from gunshot injury was reconstructed with a porous polyethylene nasal implant after a successful expansion of the nasal dorsum ski...