Plastic and cosmetic surgeryKolle, Frederick Strange
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Plastic and cosmetic surgery
Kolle, Frederick Strange
Surgery, Plastic
Both temples should be injected as advised at one sitting. The use of the
ethyl-chlorid spray makes the operation less fearful to the patient.
Subsequent injections should not be done earlier than three weeks or
until any discoloration of the skin of the parts has disappeared. The
latter is not an unusual occurrence, and is undoubtedly due to the
pressure of the injected mass upon the numerous blood vessels found there.
The post-operative treatment should be followed as heretofore advocated.
DEFORMITIES OF THE NOSE
The use of hydrocarbon protheses for the correction of nasal deformities
has revolutionized, to a great extent, the rhinoplasty of many centuries.
Through their employment many unsatisfactory cutting operations have been
entirely displaced, and it is quite right to hold that the introduction
of other subcutaneous protheses and like apparatuses of amber, celluloid,
caoutchouc, silver, gold, aluminium, ivory, or other nature have been
supplanted by this method of operation, when these were needed to correct
a partial deformity of the nose.
When a total rhinoplasty has to be undertaken the paraffin group of
protheses of course cannot be resorted to, owing to a lack of the
necessary retentive walls of tissue, except perhaps in such cases where
the so-called double flap, or French method, is employed, and there only
after the parts have become thoroughly organized.
A somewhat complete tabulation of nasal defects has been given heretofore
which gives an excellent idea of the extensive use these hydrocarbon
injections may be put to.
Such nasal deformities as are amenable to this method of correction
may be due to either congenital causes, lack of development, direct
violence, ulcerative changes following catarrh, syphilis, and tubercular
disease. In some cases, however, the defects are purely of a cosmetic
nature, and not considered as abnormalities except by the critical eye
of the patient. This is true particularly with lobular and supra-alar
deficiencies, as well as a slight lack of contour about the anterior line.
In some instances the defect may be an acquired one, as in the lateral
deviation known as handkerchief bend.
A specific and somewhat elaborate classification has been given to the
more important and distinctive deformities of the nose, principally to
facilitate the proper citation and recording of cases.
It may be readily understood that each one of these classifications may
be further subdivided, but such subdivision can be only of the degree or
extent of the deformity, and must be left to the individual operator and
his thoroughness of observation and nicety of recording.
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