Patna, Aug. 19: The annual conference of Bihar and Jharkhand Association of Plastic Surgeons, 2017, hosted by All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Patna today saw three complicated surgeries being conducted by doctors from reputable hospitals at AIIMS-Patna.

Doctors reconstructed the lower jaw of a patient, using the fibula bone of the patient in a microsurgery led by doctor Prabha Yadav of Mumbai-based Tata Memorial Hospital, while Medanta Hospital-based doctor Rakesh Khajanchi performed a corrective jaw surgery on a patient and AIIMS-Patna's paediatric surgeon Bindey Kumar performed a surgery on a child suffering from hypospedias (a birth defect in boys in which the opening of the urethra is not located at the tip of the penis).

Seventy plastic surgeons from across the country took part in a continuing medical education programme at AIIMS-Patna as part of the conference.

Lucknow-based Sahara Hospital's plastic surgeon Surajit Bhattacharya spoke on the ankylosis of the temporomandibular joint in which there is a fusion of the joints between the jaw and the skull, while doctor Rakesh Khajanchi spoke of rhinoplasty surgery (a surgery done by plastic surgeons to reshape nose) and craniofacial reconstruction (a group of procedures to repair and reshape face and skull).

Khajanchi also spoke about the role of 3-D imaging and role of printing in these types of reconstruction surgeries, while doctor VSP Sinha from Jamshedpur spoke about the hair transplant surgery and how its success depends on the gender and age of the concerned patient.

City-based doctor Pranav spoke on revascularisation of hands (joining of severed part of the hand).

The AIIMS director, Prabhat Kumar Singh, said: "These kinds of programmes add value to the skills of doctors as they get to know many new things from their colleagues." The organising secretary-cum-AIIMS-Patna plastic surgery department's doctor, Veena Singh, added that such programmes helped advance clinical knowledge of doctors.

Doctor Arvind Prakash from Ranchi, R. Bharat, Anant Sinha, V.K. Sharma and Priyadarshini Ranjan from Jamshedpur were among doctors who came to participate in the conference from other states.

Also present were AIIMS-Patna doctors Shadhna Sharma, Sanjeev Kumar, Ajeet Kumar Saxena, Prem Kumar, K.K. Sharma, Prashant Kumar among others.

Assembly speaker Vijay Kumar Chaudhary inaugurated the programme at a city hotel in the evening.