The correction of the crooked nose, is undoubtedly, the most difficult and challenging clinical situation in cosmetic and functional nasal surgery. In crooked noses, there is deviation, depression, collapse of cartilagenous and bony compartments, airways obstruction and occasional hump. It is quite obvious that the correction of these deformities, requires outstanding and distinguished surgical skills. The surgeon should always aim to achieve a well projected, profound, oriented, strong, straight, symmetrical and supported bony and cartilagenous compartments with patent airways. The use of intermediate and transverse osteotomies, together with the recent advances in tip surgery and dorsum augmentation, have certainly upgraded and promoted our end results. The transverse and intermediate osteotomies have achieved more mobilization and accurate repositioning of the nasal bones, spreader grafts have obtained a straight cartilagenous dorsum and the improved tip support techniques have accomplished more tip symmetry, elevation and projection. The key manoeuvres are lateral, medial osteotomy, intermediate and or transverse osteotomy, new dome creation, scoring, suture fixation, columellar strut, tip graft and as needed, augmentation by means of dorsum graft, supratip graft, spreader graft, Batten graft and or upper lateral cartilage onlay graft.
Classifications:
- Deformities of external nasal skeleton.
- Deformities of inner nasal skeleton.
- Deformities of external and inner nasal skeleton.
Aetiology Factors: Trauma
Trauma as the head passes through the birth canal.
- Trauma in early childhood.
- Trauma at puberty.
- Trauma after puberty.
- Iatrogenic:
Poorly performed osteotomies
Poorly performed septoplasty
Poorly performed tip surgery
Malpositioned sutures
Poorly applied nasal dressing
Types of Crooked Nose
- Crooked nose with hump.
- Crooked nose with saddling.
- Combination of hump and saddling.
- Crooked nose with lateral depression. Shapes of Crooked Nose
- C-Shape
- S-Shape
- Straight deviated