Department of Plastic Surgery

1.  Faculty members and their research interest:

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2.  Highlights of patient care provided:

§        The craniofacial clefts and post burns deformities form the main bulk of routine surgery in this department.   The clefts occupy 60% of operating time and post burn deformities around 15-20%.  In emergency, hand injuries, facial injuries and the vascular injuries are treated commonly.  The aesthetic rhinoplasty, liposuction, tumour treatment, dermatologic surgery e.g. vitiligo, keloid etc., are other but sporadic cases performed.   

§        Inter departmental management of ocular cases with Ophthalmology, leg injuries with Orthopaedics, breast cases with General Surgery, etc.  Cleft lip and palates  with ENT  for ventilating tubes,  Dentistry for Orthodontia. 

3.  Special equipments available:

Nasendoscope and Videographic recording facility, Liposuction machine, Electric saw, dermabrader, Roto-Osteotome and Drill, Operating Microscope, Cold light Fountain, Pneumatic Tourniquet, NIBP Monitor, Hand held Doppler, Nerve Stimulator, Zimmer Skin Graft Mesher, Impedence Audiometer, Computer based Image Management System. 

4.  Major research activities:

Anthropometric and  Cephalometric Study in cleft lip and palate, Normal mouth opening in children, Role of ventilating tube in middle ear problems in cleft children, Management of Keloid – Homeopathy  and Allopathy, Post burn contracture scoring, Raw area closure of cleft palate, Chordee flap in hypopadias, A new mould for vopinoplasty. 

5.  Other notable contributions to health sciences:

• Modified the principles in the management of human bite facial wounds.
• Simplified the reconstruction of large skeletal defect in chest wall following tumour resections.
• Innovated a silicone lip guard to prevent trauma to the repaired cleft lip over the malrotated tooth.
• Modified the classical Indian forehead flap so as to be useful for reconstruction of moustache.
• Evolved a method to delay the recurrence of malignant tumours  in Xeroderma pigmentosum.
• Established “Scoring of Normal Mouth opening in school children” to evaluate the degree of trismus.
• Established  “JIPMER Scale for Post burn Contractures” for  objective evaluation of the functional  and cosmetic deformities.
• Innovated a simple and inexpensive two point discrimination tester.
• Evolved methods to reuse of tissue expanders.
• Innovated pressure clip for ear lobe keloids.
• Described the chordee flap in hypospadias.
• Designed Manual record keeping system for Plastic Surgery.