by smbalaji | Dec 12, 2019 | Surgery
Patient with facial asymmetry The patient is a 30-year-old male from Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, India. Growth of his facial bones was normal until he became a teenager. It was around that time that the right side of his lower face began to develop an asymmetry. This...
by smbalaji | Oct 12, 2019 | Surgery
Patient struggling with facial asymmetry deformity The patient is a 16-year-old male from Secunderabad in Telangana, India. His parents state that he had been born with a deformity of the mouth with a right lateral facial cleft. This is commonly known as macrostomia....
by smbalaji | Sep 18, 2019 | Surgery
Patient with a severely prognathic mandible The patient is a 20-year-old female from Kottayam in Kerala, India who has a disproportionately large lower jaw. This problem manifested at an early age in the patient. She said that she has always had a very long lower jaw,...
by smbalaji | Aug 18, 2019 | Surgery
Young man with facial asymmetry The patient is a 21-year-old male from Kottayam in Kerala, India. He has had lower jaw asymmetry since his childhood. This had resulted in an asymmetrical face. There is however no history of any trauma or accidents to his jaw. This has...
by smbalaji | Jul 25, 2019 | Surgery
Occurrence of facial asymmetry is very common No human face is truly symmetric. A mild degree of facial asymmetry is always present, but not easily spotted by the naked eye. Only when this asymmetry is easily noticeable does it require surgical correction. Distraction...
