An Effective Technique for Nasal Radix Reduction in Septorhinoplasty: Procerus Muscle Resection.

In rhinoplasty patients radix position profoundly impacts the appearance of the nasal profile by influencing dorsal length, contour, angulation, and height. The authors wanted to introduce a new perspective to radix, and decided to focus on subcutaneous tissues, especially procerus muscle. Actually resection of procerus and corrugator supercilii is a part of browlift and endoscopic facelift techniques, with which the authors are already familiar.In this short report and video, the authors wanted to present a new technique to lower radix area. This technique is based on face anatomy, and muscles under radix area, and takes its roots from facelift techniques. Before introducing the authors' technique the authors wanted to show the effect of soft tissues on radix with lateral nasal x-rays. With this maneuver the soft tissue thickness of radix area is thinned.