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12-07-2010, 05:20 AM
Tuesday, December 07, 2010
By Mark Roth, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A broken nose isn't pretty, and there's no pretty way to describe how to fix one.
So if you really care about what happened to Ben Roethlisberger's schnoz, brace yourself.
At 12:19 of the first quarter of the Steelers' Sunday night game with the Baltimore Ravens, defensive lineman Haloti Ngata swiped his huge left hand through the opening of Mr. Roethlisberger's helmet and fractured his nose.
Mr. Ngata on Monday was fined $15,000 by the NFL for the hit on Mr. Roethlisberger. The hit did not result in a penalty during the game.
From the video replay, it looks as if the blow pushed the quarterback's nose bones to the right and correspondingly displaced his septum -- the cartilage just below it -- toward the left.
Mr. Roethlisberger underwent surgery Monday, although Steelers spokesman Dave Lockett would not confirm that, saying all news would wait until coach Mike Tomlin's news conference today.
The operation was almost certainly what plastic surgeons call a "closed reduction."
In that procedure, the patient is given local anesthetic and a sedative, and the surgeon then puts an instrument called an elevator, shaped like a thick bread knife, up one of his nostrils and behind the twin bones at the top of the nose. Using the elevator as a fulcrum, the surgeon uses his gloved hand to push the nose bones back into position...................
Read more @ http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10341/1108875-66.stm
By Mark Roth, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A broken nose isn't pretty, and there's no pretty way to describe how to fix one.
So if you really care about what happened to Ben Roethlisberger's schnoz, brace yourself.
At 12:19 of the first quarter of the Steelers' Sunday night game with the Baltimore Ravens, defensive lineman Haloti Ngata swiped his huge left hand through the opening of Mr. Roethlisberger's helmet and fractured his nose.
Mr. Ngata on Monday was fined $15,000 by the NFL for the hit on Mr. Roethlisberger. The hit did not result in a penalty during the game.
From the video replay, it looks as if the blow pushed the quarterback's nose bones to the right and correspondingly displaced his septum -- the cartilage just below it -- toward the left.
Mr. Roethlisberger underwent surgery Monday, although Steelers spokesman Dave Lockett would not confirm that, saying all news would wait until coach Mike Tomlin's news conference today.
The operation was almost certainly what plastic surgeons call a "closed reduction."
In that procedure, the patient is given local anesthetic and a sedative, and the surgeon then puts an instrument called an elevator, shaped like a thick bread knife, up one of his nostrils and behind the twin bones at the top of the nose. Using the elevator as a fulcrum, the surgeon uses his gloved hand to push the nose bones back into position...................
Read more @ http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10341/1108875-66.stm