A rare surgery on ear head (temporomandibular joint) was successfully conducted on an elderly person belonging to BPl category of Kalapathar village under Banki Tehsil in Cuttack district recently.
One Arjun Samantray (68) had dislocation of mandible 19 times in 2 months time and deposition of blood clot was giving extreme pain for which the patient used to get senseless time and again.
The referral hospitals and corporate hospitals asked him to have a larger surgery of Rs 80,000 with arrangement of blood and OT that caused mental agony for the poor street vendor and his family.
later, a team of doctors at the Dental Chair decided to conduct the surgery in local anesthesia. “For the first time in Odisha and though risky, the doctors made the whole surgery at Rs 15,000 only without any aid of blood and no OT,” said DR Milan Kumar.
“To take approach of Temporomandibular Joint and ear surgery, local anesthesia is almost a latest technology, where instead of cutting the whole area, a minimal design is prepared and the surgery is conducted,” he added.