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Cleft Rhinoplasty – Nose Correction
Patient born with unilateral cleft lip and palate The patient is a 26-year-old male from Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh, India. He was born with a left-sided cleft lip and palate. Cleft lip surgery and cleft palate surgery were performed before the patient was a year old. A cleft alveolus surgery was performed at the age [...]
Cleft nose surgery with lip revision
Patient born with a unilateral cleft lip and palate The patient is a 28-year-old male from Nashik in Maharashtra, India who was born with a cleft lip and palate. These are the two most common birth defects found in newborns. Speech development is also affected by these defects. Breathing problems can also be associated with [...]
Jaw Reconstruction Surgery after Dentigerous Cyst Removal
Development of right-sided mandibular swelling The patient is a 41-year-old male from Chikkaballapur in Karnataka, India. He noticed the development of a swelling in his right lower jaw around 9-10 months ago. Thinking it would subside on its own, he had ignored it for a couple of months. It was the development of pain, which [...]
Facial Asymmetry Correction with distraction
Young man with facial asymmetry The patient is a 21-year-old male from Kottayam in Kerala, India. He has had lower jaw asymmetry since his childhood. This had resulted in an asymmetrical face. There is however no history of any trauma or accidents to his jaw. This has been slowly becoming progressively worse throughout his growing [...]
Reconstruction of the lower jaw – old plate replaced with new plate and rib graft for ameloblastoma
Patient with jaw swelling diagnosed as ameloblastoma The patient is a 35-year-old male from a rural district in Andhra Pradesh, India. He had developed a painful swelling in his lower jaw around 12-14 months ago. Alarmed over this, he had presented at a local oral surgical hospital where imaging studies followed by a biopsy had [...]
Maxillary Cleft Surgery with Rib Graft
Patient returns for alveolar cleft surgery The patient is a 12-year-old female from Hubli in Karnataka, India. She was born with a left-sided cleft lip, palate and alveolus defect. A cleft lip defect usually involves the lip and nose. Postsurgical scar formation usually involves the philtral column. The patient and her parents had been referred [...]
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