Journal archive · Outcomes, satisfaction and psychology · Adolescent and aging nose · 2013
Treatment outcomes of pediatric rhinoplasty: the Asan Medical Center experience
Bae JS, Kim ES, Jang YJ.
In the archive as a landmark paper: the core sweep runs 2011–2026, and this one is here because the history of rhinoplasty rests on it · cited on pediatric septoplasty.
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“Performing rhinoplasty in children has been an issue of some debate due to concerns about potential harmful effects on nasoseptal growth. However, there is a paucity of evidence describing the outcomes of pediatric rhinoplasty. This study presents our experience of performing this procedure in children of 17 years of…”
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Outcomes, satisfaction and psychology
Rhinoplasty is measured with ten different questionnaires, none of which covers both the way the nose looks and the way it breathes, and the best-developed one has no airway questions at all.
Adolescent and aging nose
The same operation is a different problem at twelve and at seventy: in a child the fear is stunting a nose that has not finished growing, and in an older patient the nose has kept changing, dropping at the tip, thinning at the skin and weakening at the cartilage, until it blocks the airway.
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