Indian
doctors grow new nose on boy's forehead
Doctors in India have replaced a 12-year-old boy's damaged
nose with a new one which was grown on his forehead.
Arun Patel's nose was badly damaged and disfigured when he
suffered from pneumonia as a baby.
The infection damaged the cartilage of his nose, making it
difficult for doctors to fix it.
A similar operation was carried out in China in 2013 where a
man who had damaged his nose in a traffic accident was given a new one.
Arun's parents took him to a doctor in their village in the
central state of Madhya Pradesh when he suffered from pneumonia soon after his
birth.
But the treatment made his condition worse and he lost his
nose due to extensive tissue damage.
More than a decade later, a team of doctors in Indore city
decided to conduct a rare four-phased plastic surgery to give Arun a new nose.
Dr Ashwini Dash, who led the surgical team, told Jounalist
Hindi's S Niazi that he was "confident that the new nose would work
properly like his other organs".
He added that the entire operation took about a year to
finish.
In the first phase, a silicon "tissue expander" was
put on his forehead to make space to grow a new nose. Then a special chemical
was injected to make the tissues expand.
The second phase involved taking cartilage from his chest to
create a new nose, which grew on his forehead over three months.
The doctors removed the artificial nose in the third phase
and implanted it on his face. The final phase involved repairing his forehead.
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