ROBERT CAPRIOTTI
Medical Practice in Baytown, TX

License number

Florida 16825

Issued Date

Dec 31, 1973

Effective Date

Jan 1, 1901

Expiration Date

Jan 31, 1998

Professional information

Method Of Surgically Implanting A Contour Nasal Implant

US Patent:

4938234, Jul 3, 1990

Filed:

Jul 15, 1988

Appl. No.:

7/219983

Inventors:

Robert J. Capriotti - Baytown TX

International Classification:

A61B 1900

US Classification:

128898

Abstract:

A method is disclosed for surgically implanting a contour nasal implant into a nose of a patient to elevate the nasal tip and to augment and to improve the frontal and profile views of the patient's nose. The method comprises the steps of drawing, onto the nose of a patient into which a contour nasal implant is to be surgically implanted, a line connecting the highest points of the superior palpebral sulci such that the line crosses the nasal dorsum at a point representing the nasion and the highest point of implant insertion; placing two pledgets in each nostril in the nose of the patient; performing an open rhinoplasty incision into the skin located between the nostrils of the patient; retracting superiorly the columella skin off of the lower lateral cartilages on each side of the nostril up to the highest point of the natural dome of the nose of the patient; dissecting the skin off of the dorsum of the nose to the line previously drawn across the nasal dorsum; inserting a contour nasal implant having an elongated central member having a dorsal section, a predetermined shaped tip and a keel having a selected width and length which is located under the predetermined shaped tip with the keel thereof extending downward between the lower lateral cartilage until the desired implantation position is obtained; and suturing the rhinoplasty incision in the skin between the nostrils.

Contour Nasal Implant

US Patent:

5112353, May 12, 1992

Filed:

Dec 31, 1990

Appl. No.:

7/637983

Inventors:

Ole H. Johansson - Santa Barbara CA
Robert J. Capriotti - Baytown TX

International Classification:

A61F 278

US Classification:

623 10

Abstract:

A contour nasal implant adapted to be used in rhinoplasty surgery is shown. The contour nasal implant includes an elongated central member having a first end and a second end wherein the second end is spaced a predetermined distance from the first end. The first end of the elongated central member is flared to define a dorsal support end or dorsal section which is adapted to be positioned over the nasal dorsum in the nose of a patient to augment the frontal and profile views of the nose along the nasal dorsum. The second end includes a tip having a predetermined shape which is located on the same side of the elongated central member as the dorsal support end. A second end includes a keel having a selected width and length and the keel is located on the second end under the predetermined shaped tip. The keel is positioned substantially perpendicular to the elongated central member and is positioned such that the length of the keel is generally parallel to the elongated central member. The predetermined shaped tip is operative, when implanted into the nose of a patient, to reshape and elevate the nasal tip of the nose of a patient.