Little girl from Cuttack presents for cleft palate surgery This is an 8-month old baby girl from Cuttack. She was born with an isolated cleft palate. Her parents were very disturbed over this. They were very worried about their first born baby girl’s condition. They searched the Internet for the cleft palate repair surgeon. This...
Read moreSuccessful cleft palate repair surgery with release of abnormal muscle attachmentThis 3-month old baby boy was born with bilateral cleft lip and palate deformity. His parents who hail from Agartala were very troubled over his condition. Mother had difficulty feeding him and he became underweight. They decided to get the best treatment for their son. An extensive research for the best cleft lip and palate...
Read moreBilateral Cleft Lip – Successful Primary CorrectionPatient presents for surgical correction of large nose and inability to close mouth This is a 25-year-old woman from Thrissur. She presented with complaints of a large nose and the inability to close her mouth. She also complained of speech difficulty, which affected her social life. She was also quite dissatisfied with her facial appearance. She...
Read moreSuccessful surgical correction of broad nose and long lower jawThis is a 10-year-old boy from Vadodara. He presented to our hospital with a large swelling on the right side of the face. This was first diagnosed as a ‘cyst’ elsewhere. He had already undergone enucleation of the cyst, but that surgery was unsuccessful. His father stated that the swelling returned with an increase in...
Read moreSuccessful mandibular reconstruction for a boy with Trabecular juvenile ossifying fibromaThis is a 32-year-old man from Palakkad. He complained of severe pain and swelling in his lower jaw. He also complained of difficulty opening his mouth and chewing food. He has been suffering from this condition for about four years now. He searched the Internet for the best jaw correction surgeon. His search led him...
Read moreSuccessful OKC resection and jaw reconstructionThis is a 30-year-old male from Belagavi. He was involved in a road traffic accident. This resulted in a blocked nose with difficulty breathing. He had undergone a nose block clearance surgery elsewhere by open rhinoplasty. This resulted in him developing a deviated nose. There was also residual scars over the bridge of the nose...
Read moreDeviated nose correction with cc graftA 32-year-old male reported to our hospital with a complaint of square face. He was very unhappy with his facial appearance and requested for immediate correction of the same. Maxillofacial surgeon Dr. S.M.Balaji diagnosed it as bilateral masseter muscle hypertrophy. The Masseter muscle was partially excised bilaterally. The angle of the mandible on either side...
Read moreImproving facial profile by Masseter reductionA 25-year-old girl reported to our hospital with complaints of depressed nose and asymmetrical upper lip. She was very unhappy with the shape of her nose and said that it affected her facial appearance. Maxillofacial Surgeon Dr. S.M.Balaji planned to correct her nose using cc graft. Rib cartilage graft was harvested from the 8th intercoastal...
Read moreDepressed nose correction by closed rhinoplastyThis is a 23-year-old male from Nagpur. He presented with complaints of diplopia in his right eye and a depression on the right side of the face. He has a history of RTA with emergent treatment of zygomaticomaxillary complex fracture. He was not happy with the outcome of the surgery. His diplopia had not been...
Read moreSuccessful surgical correction of diplopia and depressed zygomaThis is a 33-year-old male patient from Siliguri. He met with an accident about three months ago. He underwent emergent treatment at a nearby local hospital. He realized that the accident had left him with a left sided double vision. He underwent three surgeries for his double vision, but this persisted. A depressed fracture of...
Read moreSuccessful correction of left side facial asymmetry due to RTA
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