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By Dean Toriumi
USING COSTAL CARTILAGE
DURING RHINOPLASTY

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Using Costal Cartilage during
Rhinoplasty
A highly experienced facial plastic surgeon, Dean
Toriumi, MD, attends to patients at Chicago's
Facial Plastic Surgery Center as well as the
University of Illinois Hospital. As a rhinoplasty
specialist, he helps patients achieve an
enhanced, natural look using surgical techniques
like costal cartilage grafting. In addition to his
commitment to patients, Dr. Dean Toriumi
teaches reconstructive surgery to medical
students as professor at the University of Illinois
College of Medicine Department of
Otolaryngology.

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Using Costal Cartilage during
Rhinoplasty
To remove costal cartilage, located where ribs
meet the sternum, and employ it successfully in
a rhinoplasty, surgeons require years of
experience and a high degree of technical skill.
Patients requiring nasal reconstruction often
benefit from cartilage grafting. However, many
surgeons harvest cartilage from a patient's ears
despite disadvantages like a risk of cartilage
weakening and shrinkage.

4.
Using Costal Cartilage during
Rhinoplasty
Though costal cartilage carries its own
disadvantages, an experienced plastic surgeon
can minimize the risks by taking certain
precautions. Using steel wires and other
techniques effectively prevents the warping
sometimes associated with the use of costal
cartilage in grafting. Dr. Toriumi has successfully
used the technique to address reconstruction in
cases related to trauma, congenital
malformations, and secondary rhinoplasty.