Baby girl with unilateral cleft lip and palate presents for surgery This is a 3-month old baby girl from Guwahati born with a unilateral cleft lip and palate. Her parents were very disturbed over this. They decided to search the Internet for the best cleft lip and palate repair surgeon. This brought them straight to...
Read morePrimary lip repair for unilateral cleft lip and palateYoung man desiring facial feminization surgery The patient is a young man who presented to our hospital for facial feminization surgery. He had zeroed in on our hospital after extensive Internet research. Dr SM Balaji is a member of the W-PATH. This organization dedicates all its efforts toward improving transgender healthcare. It aims to provide...
Read moreFacial Feminization – Bimaxillary setback, Gonial angle Reduction, Masseter Reduction and Advancement GenioplastyPatient with prognathic mandible presents for surgery This young man always had a very prominent mandible. He had always hated it and wanted it corrected. This had also been a source of difficulty with eating due to malocclusion. He decided to get this treated and turned to the Internet. He researched the Internet for the...
Read moreMandibular Prognathism BSSO (Bilateral Sagittal Split Osteotomy) With Separation of Inferior Alveolar NervePatient 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 graft
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