TMJ Ankylosis release

Our old patient who is a 13 yr old girl from a nearby village in Kanyakumari  had been operated three months back to lengthen her jaw and make her face more symmetrical. After successfully achieving facial harmony her next treatment was a surgery that would help her open her mouth after 13 years of being unable to do so.

Debila was wheeled into OT in the afternoon with barely a millimeter of mouth opening and three hours later she emerged from the operation theatre with 40mm of mouth opening. The surgery was performed by an expert team of maxillofacial surgeons including Dr.Sunil Richardson assisted by his surgical fellows Dr.Shreya Krishna and Dr.Avi Bansal and also Dr.Nishal Perumal who was the anaesthesiologist who specializes in intubation patients with no mouth opening. The surgery involved removal of the redundant bone that had caused fusion of the jaw joint and hence prevented debila from opening her mouth.

She has been instructed to practice mouth opening exercises after three days of surgery and is gladly doing so,having experienced a new feeling!