After a marathon surgery spanning 14 hours, a team of doctors of Mahant Indiresh hospital here successfully removed bone tumor and did a complicated reconstruction of jaw of a young patient. In the operation the doctors removed the jaw, took bone from leg and reconstructed the jaw.
The Senior Plastic Surgeon of the hospital, Dr Sanjay Sadhu said that this was a rare kind of an operation. He said that Dehradun resident Siddharth Jain (23 years) was suffering from a swelling which was slowly increasing in size inside his mouth which caused facial asymmetry. He was not able to chew food properly.
In the hospital he was diagnosed with Ameloblostoma of Mandible and required segmental resection of mandible followed by reconstruction by the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon of the Dental Department, Dr Bhawna Malik Gothi.
Dr Sadhu further informed that the affected part of the lower jaw was removed. A vascular graft (free fibula) was taken and reconstruction was done using micro vascular surgery.
Micro vascular surgery is a super specialty which requires special skill and is available in select hospitals. He said that the operation was successful and the patient is working normally after the operation. His face is completely cured after the operation.