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The Clinical Significance of Nasal Index in Ethno‐Racial Specific Rhinoplasty
Author(s) -
Otobo Tarimobo,
TarimoboOtobo Rugina
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.29.1_supplement.697.1
Subject(s) - medicine , rhinoplasty , nose , nasal cavity , orthodontics , dentistry , surgery
Congruency of the nasal septum to the philtrum, the height and width of the nose bears great significance in nasal reconstruction. Therefore establishing base line nasal parameters for specific race and ethnicity has become valuable in rhinoplasty. Nasal length, nasal heights are among the most important cephalometric measurement which are also useful in forensic medicine, clinical diagnosis and treatment plan. Five hundred (500) well body volunteer subjects (218 males and 282 females) of urhobo extract of southern Nigeria were the subjects for this study. The nasal length and nasal height of each subject was measured using standard methods and the nasal index calculated as the percentage ratio of the nasal width to the nasal height. Male Urhobo subjects have significantly higher nasal dimensions than the female Urhobo subjects (P<0.05). There was also the prevalence of platyrrhirine nose type among the Urhobo's. This peculiarity has further buttress the poor aesthetic post‐surgical outcome of nasal reconstruction when racial specific nasal index is not applied. Therefore this study has provided standard base line nasal parameters for reference when nasal surgical reconstruction is envisaged within the study population.