Patient who hated his small jaw presents to our hospital This young man from Australia never liked his retruded chin. It caused him to have a double chin. He had always wished to have a more prominent mandible. His quality of life was also affected by this. The patient had enquired all over Europe, but...
Read moreVertical augmentation genioplasty, LeFort I advancement, malar augmentation, BSSO by Distraction Osteogenesis Surgery for Double Chin CorrectionA boy from Ladakh with unilateral cleft lip and palate The patient is a 10-month-old boy with unilateral cleft lip and palate deformity. He lives with his parents in Leh. His family is from a pastoral background. A Good Samaritan from Delhi happened on this little boy during a trek in Ladakh. He offered to...
Read moreSingle sitting simultaneous unilateral cleft palate and lip repairPatient presents for maxillary advancement surgery This young lady had been born with a unilateral cleft lip and palate. She had undergone cleft lip repair at our hospital at the age of 2 months. Cleft palate repair was later performed at the age of 10 months. After this, she had rhBMP-2 surgery for uniting the...
Read moreUpper jaw Advancement Surgery Unilateral Cleft Hypoplasia – Lefort 1 Advancement SurgeryExpert correction of microtia done at our hospital Microtia is a congenital malformation of variable severity of the external ear. Correction of this deformity is through reconstruction surgery. Dr SM Balaji is an expert at microtia correction. This staged procedure gives the best results for microtia correction. Stage 2 microtia correction after successful stage 1...
Read moreMicrotia – Ear Lobe Correction – Balaji Dental and Craniofacial Hospital, IndiaPatient with nasal asymmetry and sunken right eye presents for surgery The patient is a young man who presented to our hospital for nasal asymmetry correction. This was from a road traffic accident six months ago. The patient had already been first operated on elsewhere. That surgery had failed. He also complained of having a...
Read moreHistory of RTA, Asymmetry of the nose and enophthalmos Correction SurgeryDr. S.M. Balaji explains the advantage of implants to the patient: This patient presented at Balaji Dental and Craniofacial Hospital, Teynampet, Chennai, a few months ago with multiple missing teeth in both jaws. The patient has been partially edentulous for many years now. The patient requested dental implants to replace the missing teeth. Dr SM...
Read moreDental Implant Placement on Reconstructed Upper Jaw(Maxilla) and Lower Jaw (Mandible)Patient with five previous failed surgeries elsewhere The patient is a young man who lost his right mandible due to ameloblastoma. He had ignored it for years and this resulted in extensive loss of bone from the left lateral incisor. The left side of his mandible had been absent since the ameloblastoma surgery. He has...
Read moreMultiple times jaw reconstruction failed, Resurgery – Reconstruction with rib graftPresentation of neurofibroma in this young man A neurofibroma is a benign nerve sheath tumour of the peripheral nervous system. This is an inherited disorder of the nervous system. It adds to the bulk of the tissues and can be very disfiguring and distressing to the patient. This causes facial asymmetry. Patient with neurofibroma presents...
Read moreNeurofibroma bulk reduction and asymmetry correctionPatient with residual facial deformity from old RTA correction surgery The patient is a young man who had suffered a zygomatico orbital fracture from a road accident. He had also suffered a depressed supraorbital bone fracture over his left orbit. This had happened in his hometown two years ago. He had undergone emergent surgery at...
Read moreRe-surgery of old zygomatico orbital fracture, chronic diplopia and asymmetry correctionPatient with hemifacial microsomia presents for treatment Hemifacial microsomia is a congenital disorder. It affects the development of usually one side and rarely both sides of the face. One child in every 5600 children born worldwide is afflicted by hemifacial microsomia. This condition results from the abnormal development of the first and second pharyngeal arches....
Read moreHemifacial Microsomia and Microtia with absence of condyle corrected with reconstruction of ramus and condyle
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