Scroll Ligament Repair in Dorsal Preservation Rhinoplasty: A Cartilage as a Guide on Nasal Skin Envelope for Suturing

The scroll ligament provides support to the internal and external valve, and its repair in rhinoplasty provides good functional and aesthetic results. In this study, it was aimed to repair the scroll ligament complex by leaving cartilage in the nasal skin envelope, and clinical results were shared.

216 patients who underwent closed preservation rhinoplasty with modified low septal strip septoplasty were included in the study. A 10 x 1 mm of cartilage is left in the nasal skin envelope at the midpoint of the cranial part of the lateral crus of the LLC, leaving it as a guide to repair the scroll ligament complex in the anatomically correct place. Demographic data, complications, revision surgeries, follow-up periods and satisfaction of the patients were analyzed retrospectively.

Residual humps were observed in 2 patients. Inferior turbinate hypertrophy was observed in 4 patients. In 1 patient, total septal reconstruction was performed. Two hundred and three patients were evaluated the results as poor, moderate, good and very good. One hundred and sixteen patients rated the functional outcome as very good, 80 patients as good, 4 patients as moderate and 3 patients as poor. One hundred and twenty-eight patients rated the aesthetic result as very good, 72 as good and 3 as moderate.

Repairing the scroll ligament complex provides both internal and external valve support, better redraping and eliminating the dead space. Leaving cartilage on the nasal skin envelope as a guide helps to repair the scroll ligament complex in the anatomically correct place at the end of the surgery.

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