Spreader Graft and Lateral Crural Overlay Technique in Rhinoplasty

Isfahan University of Medical Sciences

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3; Phase 2

Conditions: Rhinoplasty Techniques

Treatments: Procedure: Lateral crural overlay; Procedure: Spreader graft

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01852643

390548

Details and patient eligibility

About

Most of the studies performed to compare the present techniques of rhinoplasty have been based on the clinical examination and change of postoperative complaints that cannot be very precise in evaluating the advantages of one technique over another. Therefore, in this study the investigators are going to compare the efficacy of spreader graft and lateral crural overlay techniques by an objective method, rhinomanometry.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Candidates of rhinoplasty
• Willingness to participate

Exclusion criteria

• Having structural problems such as nasal obstruction
• History of the deformity requiring rhinoplasty of the deviated septum
• Hardening surgery
• New clinical conditions or a change in therapeutic technique
• Unwillingness to continue participating in the study
• Having no access to subjects after the operation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Spreader graft

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: Spreader graft

Lateral crural overlay

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: Lateral crural overlay