Rhinoplasty Implant: Nose Job Implants (Augmentation)
Among all the other cosmetic surgeries, rhinoplasty is the one that has the highest rate of revision. Patients, despite of the risk of rhinoplasty complications, seek a further nose job when they see that the end result is not excellent. This is what made a rhinoplasty implant popular. Instead of just fixing or reshaping the nose, most surgeons today now use an implant to make the nose appear taller and provide a better facial outline.
Where Implant is Located
The use of implants already has a long history even in nose jobs. A rhinoplasty implant is somehow different than in all other parts of the body where it is used. An implant on the nose is a skin location with the rest of the implant on a bone covered with fat, muscle, and skin. It means that the nose implants are placed just beneath the thin skin on the nasal bone or on the nasal cartilage. This also predisposes the synthetic use of implant to the nose and its potential problems.
Rhinoplasty (Nose Job) Implant vs. Grafting
There is a good motivation to use rhinoplasty implants. It can correct problems like a saddle nose that is caused by a prior rhinoplasty surgery. This is also used in African American and Asian patients because these people show a low dorsum and a lowly projected nasal tip the reason why they seek cosmetic procedures to correct the problem. Although both of these problems can be corrected by bone and cartilage grafts, the pain associated with a graft harvest prompts the patients to go for synthetic implants. Surgeons also suggest rhinoplasty implants over bone and cartilage grafts, as this procedure is easier.
According to recently released studies, the use of a rhinoplasty implant is much safer and less expensive than grafting. It has also been proven that rhinoplasty implants showed stability and tissue tolerance, the reason why this technique has been considered for almost all nasal cosmetic procedure and major or minor nasal corrections.
For a rhinoplasty implant that is up to 10 millimeters thick, the results were somehow natural looking and the nasal tissues were able to cope up with the implant. It also produced marvelous results with the least risk involved. Even after a 17-year period, the procedure have also shown very minimal cases of having the rhinoplasty implant removed due to complications like infection, swelling, bruising or displacement of the implant.