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Can you
please give us a brief history of the department when it was
founded, its growth, key milestones etc?
The department of Plastic & Cosmetic surgery commenced in
the year 1989. The expertise and skills of the consultants in
this speciality has made the department strong and reliable in
terms of the good results and the success rate achieved. Many
a times the Doctors in this department have done the Hospital
proud by operating on some rare and challenging cases, like
Bilateral hand implant, Craniofacial Surgery, Neonatal (1
month) / Cleft surgery, etc. The expertise of the Doctors is
quite evident from the types of complex cases they have
performed with Good success rate.
Growth of the department has been an inseparable part of the
journey, which has yielded the following Key milestones: In
regard to cases per year were 80-100 cases in the year 1997
increased by about 10 times during 1998-2001 at the present
done 1500 Cases are operated every year under the specialty.
The Key Milestones Being:
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Post - Trauma
surgeries and reconstruction
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Bilateral hand
implant done for the first time in India - Twice
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Large number of
Craniofacial Surgery
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Neonatal (1
month) / Cleft surgery
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Endoscopic
Cosmetic Surgery
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Large volume
Lipo suction (more than 10 lts), etc.
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Largest number
of Micro Vascular Fibula Transfer.
Some more Key
milestones
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Micro surgery as
a discipline was started in the year 1997
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We were one of
the 3 / 4 centres in the country to start endoscopic plastic
surgery in the year 2002
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Cranio facial
surgery – 1997
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TMJ ankyolosis
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Micro Surgery
for Filarial leg
Cosmetic
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Endoscopic
(Cosmetic surgery ) face lifts / brow lifts
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Endoscopic
breast implants
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Hair transplants
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Advance body
contouring surgery
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Fat transplant
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Advanced facial
recontouring including endoscopic maseter reduction
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Female genital
rejuvenation surgery
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Brachial plexus
reconstructive micro surgery - 98
Is your
department a center of excellence?
Yes
Do you have expertise in all areas of specialty?
Yes
Within these areas what would be the key specialties?
Does you
department closely work with any other medical department?
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Orthopaedics
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Neuro-Surgery
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Oncology
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Emergency
Medicine
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Radiology
Why would a
patient choose your medical department over that in any other
hospital?
A patient will choose our department over the ones in
other hospitals, because of the following reasons
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Good results
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Reputation of
medical fraternity
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Good medical
ethics
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Availability of
all related specialties under one roof.
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24 hour coverage
and consultant availability.
Good results /
reputation of the medical facility / good medical ethics / all
under once roof.
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Most
comprehensive range of services
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With innovation
being our USP
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With a level of
came that is unmatched
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The
Sr.Consultants have international exposure which make their
surgical skills on par with world standards
What kind of
cases do you handle (challenging, cannot be solved anywhere
else, high risk, cutting edge / innovative etc.)? Can you give
us examples?
Apart from the regular Plastic & Cosmetic Surgery work the
department specializes in the following rare and challenging
surgeries -
Could you
give us an overview and examples of the some of the
innovations undertaken by your department?
With the help of the latest technological innovations -
Lot of inpatient procedures which earlier required 2-3 days
hospitalization have now been brought under the OP day care
list – which has directly impact and reduced the patient stay
days in the hospital.
Lot of In patient procedures have low been operated upon as
OP-Day care surgery
Post OP rehabilitation Care based physiotherapy
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Composition
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DNB in plastic
surgery (Proposed)
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Internation exp
– Bio-data
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President of
society for reconstructive – India microsurgery 2002-04
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Examiner for MCH
plastic surgery
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Non-Surgical
treatment chemical peel face cosmetic procedure
Do you offer
any support services for patients, their family members etc.?
Exhaustive pre-operative and post operative, counseling to
the patient and family members is extended based upon the
tentative results, the risk attached to the procedure, etc.
Pre operation counseling / duration of stay / Family
counseling holistic approach on counseling – post operative
call to home to check how is the patient doing ? and other
related thing
Physio / splint making (for hands)
What are the post operative/ rehabilitation initiatives you
offer your patients?
Can you tell
us about the kind of research and training initiatives
undertaken by your department?
Proposing to start DNB in Plastic & Cosmetic Surgery.
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Hands on minds
on – Annually workshop / Training programme for MBBS ( UG &
PG)
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Research work in
the phase of project developments
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MRCS trainees
are routed through the dept for 3 months
Could you
give us an overview and examples of the some of the
innovations/ firsts undertaken by your department?
The following are the firsts undertaken by this department
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Bilateral hand
implant done for the first time in India - Twice
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Neonatal (1
month) / Clift surgery
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Large volume
Lipo suction (more than 10 lts), etc.
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Endoscopic
cosmetic plastic surgery
Please list
in full the non-surgical treatments (if applicable) offered by
your department (ex. Stenting, ablative techniques etc.)?
Chemical peel face – cosmetic procedure |
