A New Concept in the Tip Plasty of Asian Rhinoplasty

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Asian Rhinoplasty
• Interventions: Procedure: The Flag Technique

• Registration Number: NCT02224001
• Lead Sponsor: Winners Clinic

Brief Summary

For achieving the desired refinements in Asian patients, sufficient septal cartilage must be needed for the ieal tip projection and lengthening of the nose by the septal extension graft, columellar septal strut graft, and onlay tip graft, shield graft. Actually there are many cases having insufficient septal cartilages in Asian augmentation rhinoplasty.

The investigators propose the new technique, so called 'Flag Technique' by a tip-strut complex in a flag-like shape : using only the septal cartilage as an elongated columellar septal strut graft, a shield graft , bilateral mini-spreader grafts of the upper part in the elongated columellar septal strut graft without the septal extension graft to achieve the desired the result.

Detailed Description

The investigators propose the new technique, so called 'Flag Technique' by a tip-strut complex in a flag-like shape : using only the septal cartilage as an elongated columellar septal strut graft, a shield graft , bilateral mini-spreader grafts of the upper part in the elongated columellar septal strut graft without the septal extension graft to achieve the desired the result.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2008-01
• Primary Completion: 2014-06
• Study Completion: 2014-06
• Study First Submitted: 2014-08-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-08-21
• Study First Posted: 2014-08-22
• Status Verified: 2014-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-09-11
• Last Update Posted: 2014-09-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 161

Inclusion Criteria

• primary case
• secondary case

Exclusion Criteria

• septal cartilage harvested state
• congenital anomaly in septal cartilage

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Asian rhinoplasty, septal cartilage	The Flag Technique	A New Concept in the Tip Plasty of Asian Rhinoplasty : The Flag Technique by Use of Only A Septal Cartilage without Septal Extension Grafts The investigators propose the new technique, so called 'Flag Technique' by a tip-strut complex in a flag-like shape : using only the septal cartilage as an elongated columellar septal strut graft, a shield graft , bilateral mini-spreader grafts of the upper part in the elongated columellar septal strut graft without the septal extension graft to achieve the desired the result.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of Participants with Serious and Non-Serious Adverse Events	six months	* tip deviation : 1 case; * low tip projection : 1 case

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

The Department of Plastic Surgery, Winners Clinic; 🇰🇷 Gangnamgu, Seoul, Korea, Republic of