Reconstructive Surgery
It forms the basic part of most of the plastic surgical training. It deals with all kinds of reconstructive work following Burns, Trauma, Cancer and other related deformities to any part of the body.
Cosmetic Surgery
Most demanding sub-specialty today, both for technical skills and prosperity of the surgeon point of view. It mainly deals with beautification, camouflaging ageing and refinement for the existing features in the body. It also deals with some of the congenital problems related to ear, nose etc.
A major bulk of work in this field includes:
Facial Appearance Improvement Like
- Face-lift and Neck lift
- Blepharoplasty
- Treatment of Baldness-Hair transplants
- Fat / collagen injection to take away grooves and depressions
- Chemical peeling and dermabrasion
Breast Related Surgeries
- Breast augmentation
- Breast lift
- Breast reduction
Excess Fat Deposition Related – Lypodystrophy
- Abdominoplasty and Liposuction
- Ultrasound assisted liposuction
- Power assisted liposuction
Nose Related
- Cosmetic Rhinoplasties
- Cleft lip nose deformities
- Rhinoplasties with implant usage
- Correction of acquired nasal deformities
Ear Related
- Correction of ear deformities
- Reconstruction of microtia ears
Micro-vascular Surgery
Again most demanding area of plastic surgery both surgically as well as patience wise. It requires dedication and long hour of operations
It deals with:
- Major soft tissue/ composite tissue loss reconstruction with free composite tissue transfers
- Traumatic limb injuries requiring vascular reconstructions
- Soft tissue losses over the face requiring free flaps
- Major cancer reconstructions requiring micro-vascular reconstructions
- All vascularization and replantation of the limbs including both macro and micro replantations.
- Toes transfers for finger reconstruction in both traumatic loss and congenital absence of finger
- Free tissue transfers for external genitalia reconstruction secondary to trauma or any other cause
A micro-vascular laboratory forms an integral part of the department dealing with micro-vascular cases. It provides opportunity to upcoming micro-surgeons to practice and lean new technique on experimental animals. It also enhances scope for research work in the files.
Burns & Post Burns Reconstruction
This branch deals with acute burn due to thermal, electrical, chemical and other causes. It involves management of patients from critical stage (updated intensive burn care unit) to the complete recovery.
Post burn sequelae management involves a series of reconstructive procedures to obtain acceptable, functional and aesthetic results.
It also takes into consideration the rehabilitation of affected individuals.
Hand Surgery
A major sub-specialty of the Plastic surgery. Dealing with all hand related problems. It is one of the fascinating fields in Plastic surgery.
It deals with:
- Traumatic involvement of hand
- Major congenital hand anomalies
- Post nerve injury deformity corrections
Congenital Anomalies
It deals with the management of cases like:
- Cleft lip and Cleft palate
- Rare craniofacial clefts
- Ear deformities like – Anotia, Microtia, Bat ear, Cup ear and their correction surgically
- Congenital hand anomalies like Syndactyly, Polydactyle, Radial club hand, Mirror hand etc.
- Along with the above, it also deals with lots of other congenital anomalies of the chest, abdominal wall and other extremities.
Craniofacial and Maxillofacial Surgery
It is one of the major subspecialty of the Plastic Surgery
It deals with the management of:
- Complex Craniofacial anomalies like Craniostenosis, Hypertelorism and complex cranial vault deformities.
- It deals with fracture involving facial bones viz. fracture of the mandible, maxilla, and zygoma, orbital and base of the skull as well. More complex fracture like Lefort1, 2 and 3 are also dealt with.
- Jaw and jaw related functional aesthetic corrections are tackled in this subspecialty.
- Basal skull surgeries are considered in this field.
We at Vydehi Hospital, in the department of Plastic, Cosmetic and Reconstructive surgery are providing services in the most of these subspecialties.
Plastic surgery thus is a most promising super specialty today. It is most demanding field in higher surgical specialty both from technical as well as planning point of view. Plastic Surgery thus can improve social, economical and functional image of a person of an individual.
