The doctor seemed to have a great deal of pride, but I also felt he was a bit slow to update his information. He said that if there is no septal cartilage, donated costal cartilage is always recommended, and that ear cartilage will always sag. The director also said ear cartilage sags, and when talking about only placing ear cartilage at the nasal tip, I asked, “Who even just puts ear cartilage on the tip these days...?” We use an ear cartilage support structure... After that, he seemed a bit flustered.
The head doctor recommended donated costal cartilage, saying ear cartilage support is weak, and that if it is done in two layers, support can increase, but because it is two layers it becomes hard. So I asked whether donated costal cartilage is also rib cartilage anyway, and whether it would not be harder than using two layers of ear cartilage, but he avoided answering that part.
It was a clinic that made me wonder why they are so reluctant to use ear cartilage.