Gore-tex, Expanded PTEE ( Polytetrafluoroethylene)
Advantages: 1. It seems to be more natural than silicone rubber after the plastic surgery; 2. Apex of nose will not be red after surgery; 3. Tissue can grow into materials, so the long time fixation is better; 4. Postoperative tip of nose is very soft, which can not be found the people have plastic surgery; 5. It is easy to operate for the patients with thin skin.
Shortcomings: 1. It is more difficult to back out from the nose than silicone rubber; 2. It is more expensive than the price of silicone rubber; 3. It needs more experienced surgeons.
Silicone rubber
Advantages: 1. The doctors with less experience can use it to operate, while the surgery time is short; 2. Through one-time operation can raise the nose and the nose tip, the approach may make the tip red, so the nose tip shall not simply use silicone rubber; 3. Hawk nose also can use this material.
Shortcomings: 1. Silicone rubber into the human body will form a thin fiber; 2. If the nose tip also use this material, the nose tip will turn red; 3. Tip can not be raised as it is too hard; 4. A very small number of people have allergic reactions to the silicone rubber.
Man-made leather (Alloderm)
Because it retains the original components of human skin, the skin is easy to transplant, which is manly applied in the soft material tip surgery.
Self-tissue
Self-tissues are extracted from own body, as their own issues, so they have most affinity. However, because they are extracted from the body, the scar will be left.
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