Ideas and Innovations A new tool for cartilaginous hump reduction

Hump reduction is one of the important stages in aesthetic rhinoplasty. The technique requires experience to achieve an accurate reduction and it is often difficult for a trainee to know how much should be removed. Although it is possible to draw a line on the skin over the nose in order to indicate the amount of the hump to be removed, once the ala is retracted it is difficult to visualise accurately the level of excision corresponding to this line. When the hump is removed by a scalpel or scissors, a common error is to resect too much rather than too little.