What if we told you your nose could help heal ... to mature for two weeks before surgery. While both groups reported improvements, patients with more mature cartilage grafts continued to show ...

“Nasal septum cartilage cells have particular characteristics ... involving cartilage grafts grown for only two days prior to surgery versus grafts allowed to mature for two weeks.

The patients in the nasal tissue study were all elderly and had recently undergone cancer surgery. Ordinarily, doctors reconstruct noses with big pieces of cartilage taken from the ear ...

Steiger, MD, a double board-certified facial plastic surgeon at Steiger Facial Plastic Surgery ... will then lift the skin of the nose off the bone and cartilage. The surgeon will manipulate ...

In response, researchers at the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel are developing cartilage implants using cells from the patient's nasal septum. A recent study shows that giving ...