The study was performed at the Otorhinolaryngology service Clinicas Hospital of Porto Alegre ( HCPA). Patients who meet the inclusion and exclusion criteria will be invited to participate in the study. All patients who agree to participate in the study, filling out an Informed Consent Form, will have their preoperative consultation registered. Pre- and postoperative follow-up will be performed at the otorhinolaryngology service of HCPA. Patients will be allocated randomly in the intervention and control groups, in blocks of 6, using a computer generated random sequence of numbers. . The allocation will be kept confidential for the patient and for the researchers responsible for measuring the outcomes. intervention group will be submitted to surgical modification of the alar base with incisions in the alar facial groove, the control group will be submitted to a similar technique, but it will save groove.