Corrective plastic surgery of the cleft nose

15 years' experience allows the author to state that secondary corrective plastic operations on the osseous framework, the septum and the triangular cartilage are always a must by cleft nose patients. The procedures for unilaterally or bilaterally involved nose differ, lateral deviation and asymmetry being the main deformities in the first case, and underdeveloped septum and columella and a widened nasal tip in the second. The author describes techniques which are either entirely his own, or through him modified. Diagrams and clinical cases illustrate and fully explain such techniques.