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APS Aesthetic Plastic Surgery · 1988

Calibrated alar base excision: a 20-year experience

McKinney PW, Mossie RD, Bailey MH.

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 alar base modification.

From the abstract

“Conflicting guidelines for excisions about the alar base led us to develop calibrated alar base excision, a modification of Weir's approach. In approximately 20% of 1500 rhinoplasties this technique was utilized as a final step. Of these patients, 95% had lateral wall excess ("tall nostrils"), 2% had nostril floor…”

Excerpt; the full abstract is on PubMed.

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Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Year
1988
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3
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