AIIMS doctors perform facial correction surgery on man

Doctors at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciennces (AIIMS) have performed a total facial correction surgery on a 20-year-old man, who suffered facial deformity due to an accident in childhood.

Ajay had a major facial asymmetry because of a problem with jaw joints. The case was reported in January this year. “He had met with an accident in the childhood that restricted the growth of his jaws on one side causing a severe facial asymmetry. His chin, instead of being at the centre, was skewed to one side and his upper jaw was also not in one level with one side being shorter which gave his face not so pleasing a look,” said Dr Ajoy Roychoudhury, Professor and Head, Division of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery at Centre for Dental Education and Research at AIIMS.

“He was depressed and could not go out,” he added. 

His entire face was replicated by 3D modeling on a plastic model. The exact surgery which was to be performed for straigtening his face was done on the model to see the final results.