The bone (green) is now
glued to the cartilage (pink) with the medical version of super glue. This piece
of cartilage, previously floppy, is now quite strong, and easily strong enough
to serve as a tip graft. The bone is thin enough that when I am stitching
the graft in position, the needle can be passed right through the bone.
Note also that the
bone resides inside the borders of the cartilage around the perimeter,
especially at the top of the graft, by the black arrow. That way, the skin
of the tip of the nose will rest on the thicker, softer cartilage, and not on the sharp
edge of bone, which could be a problem.
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