Deviated Septum

DEVIATED SEPTUM

Your nose is important to your health. It filters the air you breathe, removing dust, germs, and irritants. It warms and moistens the air to keep your lungs and tubes that lead to them from drying out. Your nose also contains the nerve cells that help your sense of smell. When there is a problem with your nose, your whole body can suffer.

Deviated septum - a shifting of the wall that divides the nasal cavity into halves

Nasal septal deviations play a critical role in nasal obstruction symptoms, aesthetic appearance of the nose, increased nasal resistance, and sometimes snoring

Septal deformity is of two kinds, which may occur independently, or together:

1) Anterior cartilage deformity of the quadrilateral septal cartilage

- caused by direct trauma or pressure at any age

2) Combined septal deformity

- involving all the septal components

- caused by compression across the maxilla from pressures occurring during pregnancy or parturition

- this is part of a facial deformity

Correction of the septum is essential for the correction of deviated nose. If no intervention is made to the septum that does not start from midline at the keystone area, either the crookedness will persist or thicker spreader grafts will need to be placed at the opposite side of the crookedness or further camouflaging will be required. The latter may cause dorsum to get wider.

References: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31261328, https://medlineplus.gov/noseinjuriesanddisorders.html, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/99070
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