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6 year old boy lost part of his face in an auto accident, and underwent complex facial surgery, as they had to replant the nose, upper lip, a portion of lower lip and a portion of cheek.

In the span of a week, young Abhayakumar had a taste of hell and heaven. The six-year-old had little idea of things to come when he boarded an autorickshaw to see his aunt off at the Chengannur railway station on December 20 afternoon.

In a flash, everything changed for him as a speeding car collided with the autorickshaw in which the boy was travelling along with his uncle and aunt. The boy lost part of his face in the accident and was brought to Specialist Hospital here by night.

“Policemen retrieved the damaged portion of the boy’s face from the accident site and sent it in another ambulance by the time he was brought here,” said Raju, the boy’s uncle. The doctors tried to clean up the severed portion of his face, which included nose, upper lip, a portion of lower lip and a portion of cheek, and re-plant it to original position.

“The severed portion had all the bones and flesh intact, but was highly contaminated. Another daunting task was that blood vessels were so small that chances of success were less,” said Dr. R. Jayakumar, head of the Department of Plastic and Micro-vascular Surgery, who headed the surgery.

Dr. Jayakumar, who addressed the press meet to announce the success of the surgery on Thursday at the hospital, along with Dr. K.R. Rajappan, director of the hospital, said that no available literature showed that successful execution of composite facial graft, that too involving only a portion of the face, was done in the … continue reading

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