Patient with long standing neck pain The patient is a 31-year-old medical doctor from Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, India. He has had significant facial asymmetry since forever. This began as a slightly asymmetrical appearance of his lower face. Feeling very self conscious about this, he had developed the habit of tilting his head towards the...
Read moreFacial Asymmetry surgery with Mandibular Distraction SurgeryPatient develops swelling in left lower jaw area The patient is a 27-year-old female from Chengam in Tamil Nadu, India. She began noticing the development of a swelling in her lower jaw around a year ago. This was on the left side. The swelling was not painful, but there was loosening of teeth in the...
Read moreInfected keratocyst excision with Jaw Reconstruction SurgeryPatient with cleft lip and palate deformity The patient is a 19-year-old young girl from Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, India. She was born with a cleft lip, palate and alveolus. Her parents were counseled extensively after her birth. They were advised to get her deformity repaired at the appropriate ages. She first underwent cleft lip...
Read moreRetruded Upper Jaw Correction with Le Fort I Advancement SurgeryA 23-year-old girl from Guntakal with facial deformity The patient is a 23-year-old female from Guntakal in Telangana, India. She had fallen down and injured her jaw while playing with friends as a little girl. The patient had landed on her chin and had cried incessantly for a few days. Her parents had taken her...
Read moreTMJ Ankylosis Surgery and Jaw Distraction SurgeryPatient with a severely prognathic mandible The patient is a 20-year-old female from Kottayam in Kerala, India who has a disproportionately large lower jaw. This problem manifested at an early age in the patient. She said that she has always had a very long lower jaw, which had gradually worsened with time. Her parents had...
Read moreFacial Asymmetry Surgery with Bilateral Sagittal Split OsteotomyBaby girl born with cleft lip and palate The patient is a 12-year-old girl from Guwahati in Assam, India. She was born with a cleft lip and palate along with a cleft alveolus. Cleft lip surgery had been performed at 3 months of age. This was followed by cleft palate surgery at 9 months of...
Read moreReconstruction of Upper Lip with Lower Lip Abbe FlapGirl born with deformed right external ear The patient is a now 24-year-old girl from Ranchi in Jharkhand, India who was born with near total absence of her external right ear. She had just a peanut like wedge instead. There was also absence of an external ear canal and eardrum. Her marriage had been fixed...
Read moreMicrotia Second Stage Ear Reconstruction SurgeryChild born with cleft lip and palate deformity The patient is a 12-year-old boy from Vizag in Andhra Pradesh, India who was born with bilateral cleft lip and palate. Parents were counselled extensively regarding their child’s condition. The roof of the mouth had a hole in it. As per the recommendations made, he underwent cleft...
Read moreUpper lip reconstruction with lower lip Abbe Flap surgeryHistory of a fall on her chin as a little girl The patient is an 18-year-old young girl from Guntur in Andhra Pradesh, India. She has a history of a fall at the age of two when she fell off the bed and landed on her chin. This had resulted in pain and difficulty with...
Read morePediatric Mandibular Distraction for Sleep ApneaA fall from bed as an infant with resultant chin injury The patient is a 4-year-old boy from Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India who rolled off his crib as an infant. He had landed on his chin and had cried a lot due to the resultant pain. His worried parents had taken him to a...
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