title: Hockey-stick vertical dome division technique for overprojected and broad nasal tips.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To discuss overprojected and broad nasal tips, to overview treatment options, and to relate our experience with the hockey-stick technique.
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective review (1975-2005) was conducted. Patients were selected from a computerized rhinoplasty database of operative cases. The database was used to extract a subset population that had received the hockey-stick tip procedure and had follow-up data for 1 year or more after surgery. Medical records and photographs were also analyzed in this review of results and complications.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The hockey-stick modification of vertical dome division was used in 137 patients (9.9% of the rhinoplasties in the computerized database). Of these, 64 patients had 1 year or more of follow-up. Complications referable to the nasal tip (eg, bossae, persistent tip projection, and alar asymmetry) were seen in 8 patients (13%). Revisions for tip-related problems were performed in 4 patients (6%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The hockey-stick technique is an effective method for nasal tip deprojection and narrowing via an endonasal approach. The length of follow-up in this patient population allows good long-term evaluation of this technique.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65212, USA. changda@health.missouri.edu
authors.forename: C W David
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Robert L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Simons
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012225:Rhinoplasty / Q000379:methods*