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Plastic surgery of tongue and left jaw
My uncle has 3rd stage mouth cancer and his surgery is going on 21st December in which his half part of tongue and left jaw will be removed be doctors.........
My question is that is there any plastic surgery for half tongue and left jawbone so that his face can be seen normal???
If yes then please recommend us best surgeon in India so that we can consult to them.
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Yes.
Plastic surgery is done.
As we remove jaw bone, it must be replaced by a bone from leg.
Any surgery which does not replace bone from bone will be an inferior procedure
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Please meet a surgical.oncologist and plastic surgeon for opinion...
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