Bilateral Intraoral Mucosal Flaps for Repair of Vestibular Stenosis Following Rhinoplasty & Airway Reconstruction: A Case Report

Abstract

Background: Aesthetic rhinoplasty is a challenging specialty for surgeons as both the demands​ of patients and physicians are high. Preservation rhinoplasty brings many advances and advantages to the rhinoplasty with the intent of decreasing the need for revision or secondary rhinoplasty through change that is less destructive. Nonetheless, there are often patients in the rhinoplasty surgeon’s practice who have either aesthetic or functional sequelae from previous open or more reduction-oriented procedures. One of the more troublesome complications for the patient to live with, and the surgeon to correct, is vestibular stenosis.