Top 10 Reconstructive Surgery
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Burns can kill and maim, and are dangerous. Severe burns can kill within hours. Infection is a dreadful sequela delaying treatment. Effective burn care requires close attention to detail and the use of relevant technologies to keep patients safe. For post-burn contractures that hamper movements, efficient plastic surgeries with tissue regeneration produce excellent improvements. The patient needs wholesome treatment, not just the burns. Burn patients and their families may confront several challenges during their recovery. All burn patients require complete re-integration into society, leading happy pain-free, and productive lives.

Chronic wounds are difficult to heal, leading to extended hospitalization, multiple surgeries, amputation, or life-threatening infections. Comprehensive wound care checks your overall health, underlying diseases, and proper wound assessment. Effective and early treatment reduces complications, prevents amputations, early return to work, and better quality of life. Chronic non-healing wounds are caused by diabetes, neuropathy, peripheral arterial disease, venous insufficiency, lymphedema, vasculitis, trauma, irradiation, wound dehiscence, pressure sores, burns, and infections.

Skin cancers are dangerous. Not treated, they can lead to destruction, deformity, loss of function, and even death. Basal Cell Cancer is the most common type of skin cancer. Actinic Keratosis, Squamous Cell Cancer, and Melanoma are the other common types. Any growth over the skin is preferably removed and sent for biopsy - some of them turn out to be precancerous (showing malignant potential). Diligent removal with high cure rates and fine imperceptible scars are possible through plastic surgery. Special care is taken to get the best cosmetic appearance of the resulting scar.

Scars can be unpredictable. Many variables affect scarring, including depth, site, and size of the wound, blood supply, infection, type of skin, and direction of the scar. Scar formation depends on your body reaction, type of original injury, and the skill and finesse of a surgeon. A scar cannot be removed permanently. Good plastic surgeons like Dr. Srinjoy Saha would improve your scar appearance and make it as imperceptible as best possible. Different surgical techniques, lasers, fillers, and fat grafting are performed to improve the appearance and severity of scarring. How much an appearance of a scar bothers you, is, of course, a personal matter.

Facial reanimation is required to provide movements or 'animation' to a person suffering from facial paralysis. Plastic surgery can reanimate the face after just one highly specialized operation and may require further procedures in more complicated conditions if necessary. The facial nerve is the seventh cranial nerve responsible for moving muscles of facial expression, and has five main branches. . It can be paralyzed after injury, tumor resection, Bell's palsy, congenital deformities amongst others. Treatment of paralyzed face requires a specialized and tailored treatment plan.

Surgical correction of hand defect or deformity following trauma, fractures, congenital deformities, nerve entrapments, tendon, and vessel injuries to the hand, wrist, and forearm are commonly performed. Innovative microsurgical techniques reattaching amputated fingers and limbs are also performed. Types of hand surgery are: Carpal Tunnel Decompression, Nerve Release for Relief of Chronic Pain, Hand and Finger Contracture - Post Burns or Dupuytren's, Repair / Reconstruction of Birth Defect or Deformity, Tendon Injury Repair, Tendon Reconstruction, Finger Injury Reconstruction with Flaps, and Tumor over Hand or Fingers.

'Flap' refers to human tissues still attached to the body by a major artery and vein, which supplies adequate blood flowing through it. In reconstructive plastic surgery, a flap is used to cover an injured area or gap in the body, called a 'defect'. The flap may consist of skin and fatty tissues, muscles, fascia, or all of these in various combinations. The area from which a flap is raised is called a donor site. The area in the body where the flap is placed is called a recipient site. Flaps are divided into 3 major categories: Local (pedicled) flap, Regional flap, and Free tissue transfers.

Skin grafting is a plastic surgery technique of transplanting skin from one area of the body to another. It is used to treat extensive wounds and injuries, burns, areas of skin loss due to severe infection like necrotizing fasciitis, and some surgeries like after removal of skin cancers. It can be of two types - partial and full. A partial-thickness skin graft involves the removal of a thin layer of upper skin from a donor area. A full-thickness skin graft involves taking the entire thickness of skin from the donor area. It is riskier as it has a lesser take' rate. On the brighter side, its aesthetic match is high, scarring is low, and wound healing is faster.

Plastic surgeons can perform reconstructive surgery to correct webbed toes or fingers, remove extra toes or fingers, remove tumors, or treat tarsal tunnel syndrome. In diabetic foot ulcers, nerve sensation can be regained with specialized microscopic nerve surgery, along with tarsal tunnel decompression. Healing difficult diabetic wounds have been achieved successfully with minimal surgery, after combining biomaterials with cells and growth factors, to regenerate the body tissues. It allows patients to heal their wounds even while working normally. Proper healing of foot ulcers resulted in lessening amputations, morbidity, and death in diabetics.

Reconstruction is often performed after a woman has undergone a mastectomy as part of her treatment for breast cancer. Multiple techniques can be used for breast reconstruction, including tissue expansion, fat grafting, abdominal free and regional flaps, regional chest wall flaps, and breast implants. Abdominal regional and free flaps are long-duration plastic surgeries, involving significant costs and anesthetic risks. Tissue expansion with breast implants provides a simpler and efficient alternative for recreating the breast mounds. A plastic surgeon can also perform breast reduction surgery for men or women who have abnormally large breasts.