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Doctors reconstruct 12-year-old boy's nose on his forehead! What happened next will amaze you...

4 Jul, 2016
Doctors reconstruct 12-year-old boy's nose on his forehead! What happened next will amaze you...Doctors reconstruct 12-year-old boy's nose on his forehead! What happened next will amaze you...

Due to a side-effect of an injection his nose had disappeared when he was just one-month-old. But the doctors reconstructed the boy's nose on his forehead!

In a revolutionary step, doctors in Indore reconstructed a 12-year-old boy's nose on his forehead. They then implanted it on to its original place!

This rare plastic surgery was performed on Arun Patel, hailing from the adjoining Ujjain district, who is a class VI student.

Why was it done?

Dr Ashwini Dash, who led a team of doctors to perform the surgery reportedly explained, "Due to a side-effect of an injection his nose had disappeared when he was just one-month-old."

He further added that his team first reconstructed Patel's nose from the skin of his forehead. Then they implanted this reconstructed nose on to its original place.

How was it done?

This procedure, however, took the doctors one whole year and they did it in four separate

"A normal rhinoplasty was not possible on Arun's face as his nose had almost disappeared. Therefore, we decided to perform a special plastic surgery on him, which is medically called as 'pre-fabricated forehead flap rhinoplasty'," the 42-year-old surgeon told the daily.

Here is how the doctors reconstructed the nose in four different phases:

  • First phase: In this phase, the doctors placed a special silicon 'tissue expander' on Patel's forehead. Then they added a special chemical so that the tissues could expand
  • Second phase: In this phase, cartilage from the lower part of chest was used to construct a nose and this was attached to the forehead. The doctors did this to stimulate the tissues and get the blood circulation going.
  • Third phase: In this phase the doctors removed the nose from the forehead and attached it to its original position. They attached every minute vein so that it may have normal function.
  • Fourth phase: In this phase, the area on the forehead that was used to reconstruct the nose was normalised.

Reaction from the boy!

The daily reported that Patel is ecstatic!

"I did not have the courage to look at myself in the mirror in the absence of the nose. I would always walk on roads with my head down. In school, the children used to be afraid of me and made fun of me. But, now after getting a new nose, I can face the people with self-confidence," he reportedly said.

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