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Biomechanical Properties of Facial Cartilage Grafts

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The cartilage framework of the nose plays an important role in the mechanical support of shape and airway patency. Articular cartilage is a weight-bearing and stress-tolerant tissue capable of sustaining high-impact loads with prolonged duty cycles, while facial cartilage serves primarily as structural support for the airway and does not undergo repeated high stress and strain deformations, but responds to small static loads which act over prolonged time frames. The authors discuss the triphasic theory as the most comprehensive model for cartilage mechanical behavior, mechanical properties of native facial cartilage and autologous grafts, and estimation of threshold mechanical stability

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  1. Department of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery, University of California Irvine, 19182 Jamboree Road, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA

    Sepehr Oliaei M.D.

  2. Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, University of California Irvine, 1002 Health Sciences Road East, Irvine, CA, 92617, USA

    Cyrus Manuel B.S. & Dmitriy Protsenko Ph.D.

  3. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Facial Plastic Surgery, University of California Irvine, 1002 Health Sciences Road East, Irvine, CA, 92617, USA

    Brian J. F. Wong M.D., Ph.D.

  4. Division of Facial Plastic Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery, University of California Irvine, 19182 Jamboree Road, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA

    Brian J. F. Wong M.D., Ph.D.

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    Melvin A. Shiffman

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Oliaei, S., Manuel, C., Protsenko, D., Wong, B.J.F. (2013). Biomechanical Properties of Facial Cartilage Grafts. In: Shiffman, M., Di Giuseppe, A. (eds) Advanced Aesthetic Rhinoplasty. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28053-5_37

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