Rib cartilage rhinoplasty risks

Rib cartilage rhinoplasty is a kind of autologous tissue transplantation surgery, using the human body’s own tissue to fill the defective parts, without rejection, but it needs to remove the rib cartilage from the chest, which may cause some trauma to oneself, such as deformation of the chest, and in serious cases, it may cause pneumothorax or lung injury. In addition, there are also the following risks: 1, post-operative scars: the removal of rib cartilage from the chest will leave scars, mainly related to improper post-operative care or the surgeon himself belongs to the scar body; 2, nose distortion: because rib cartilage is relatively hard, after plastic surgery may appear after the absorption of rib cartilage bending deformation or touching the nose, resulting in nose distortion; 3, pain, bleeding: because of the need to take rib cartilage, post-operative chest and nose will be 4, infection: if the wound care is not in place after surgery, the nose tip will easily become red, accompanied by swelling and other infections, so you need to routinely use anti-infective drugs for preventive anti-infective treatment after surgery to avoid taking out the rib cartilage after infection; 5, other: nasal stiffness and unnatural expression. Therefore, when doing rhinoplasty with rib cartilage, it is necessary to consider the patient’s condition, surgical history, local skin condition, such as whether the artificial prosthesis can be tolerated and whether rib cartilage surgery must be chosen, and then decide whether to perform the surgery to avoid increasing unnecessary surgical risks.