Filling the nasal dorsum with Gore-tex in rhinoplasties

• Autor(a) principal: Tostes,Rodrigo Otávio Gontijo
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Ferreira,Felipe Pacheco Martins, Andrade Júnior,João Carlos Cisneiros Guedes de, Lima,José Cesário da Silva Almada, Almeida,Patrícia Noronha de, Meira,Alexandre Alcides Mattos de, Ferreira,Eduardo de Melo, Coelho,Anna Cristina de Freitas
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Plástica (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1983-51752011000300016
• topic: Rhinoplasty; Polytetrafluoroethylene; Nose/surgery

BACKGROUND: Many autogenous and exogenous materials have been frequently used for the production of grafts and implants in rhinoplasties. The ideal graft or implant should be biocompatible, biointegrated, non-absorbable, and easily moldable and should not cause an inflammatory response. Gore-tex, an expandable form of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) has been used since the 1970s for vascular graft production. Although Gore-tex is extremely versatile and has extensive uses and low complication rates, the demonstration of Gore-tex use in aesthetic surgery is very limited in medical literature. METHODS: We performed a retrospective study of 7 patients who received Gore-tex implants in order to fill the nasal dorsum from January 2005 to December 2007. All patients were assessed for aesthetic and functional factors and for the presence or absence of complications. RESULTS: All patients had good postoperative evolution, with great satisfaction in terms of aesthetic and functional aspects and no complications. CONCLUSIONS: Gore-tex is a satisfactory synthetic material as it is inexpensive, easily moldable, has good biocompatibility, and has shown no incidence of extrusion or infection in implants used for nasal dorsum filling in previously reported cases