Unknown Facts About Nose Surgery (Rhinoplasty) - Michigan Medicine

History [edit] Treatments for the plastic repair of a broken nose are first mentioned in the Edwin Smith Papyrus, a transcription of text dated to the Old Kingdom from 3000 to 2500 BCE. The (c. 1550 BC), an Ancient Egyptian medical papyrus, describes nose surgery as the plastic surgical operation for reconstructing a nose ruined by rhinectomy.

Nose job techniques are explained in the ancient Indian text by Sushruta, where a nose is reconstructed by utilizing a flap of skin from the cheek. During the Roman Empire (27 BC 476 ADVERTISEMENT) the encyclopaedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus (c. 25 BC 50 ADVERTISEMENT) released the 8-tome (On Medicine, c. 14 AD), which described plastic surgical treatment techniques and treatments for the correction and the reconstruction of the nose and other body parts.

320400 ADVERTISEMENT) published the 70-volume Synagogue Medicae (Medical Compilations, 4th century AD), which explained facial-defect restorations that included loose sutures that allowed a surgical wound to heal without misshaping the facial flesh; how to clean up the bone exposed in a wound; debridement, how to remove damaged tissue to forestall infection and so accelerate healing of the wound; and how to use autologous skin flaps to fix broken cheeks, eyebrows, lips, and nose, to bring back the patient's regular visage.

The illustrations featured a re-attachment rhinoplasty utilizing a biceps muscle pedicle flap; the graft connected at 3-weeks post-procedure; which, at 2-weeks post-attachment, the surgeon then formed into a nose. In Great Britain, Joseph Constantine Carpue (17641846) released the descriptions of 2 nose jobs: the reconstruction of a battle-wounded nose, and the repair of an arsenic-harmed nose.

Carpue's operation). Artificial nose, made of plated metal, 17th18th century Europe. This Author would have been used as an option to rhinoplasty. In Germany, rhinoplastic technique was refined by surgeons such as the Berlin University teacher of surgery Karl Ferdinand von Grfe (17871840), who published Rhinoplastik (Reconstructing the Nose, 1818) in which he explained 55 historical plastic surgery treatments, and his technically innovative free-graft nasal reconstruction (with a tissue-flap gathered from the client's arm), and surgical methods to eyelid, cleft lip, and cleft taste buds corrections.