How a Dubai plastic surgeon restored the face of an acid-burn victim

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A young woman with fourth degree acid burns to her face that completely dissolved her features, melted her eyelids actually walked out of a Dubai hospital with confidence and most of her face restored in a series of surgeries carried out in a span of two years, thanks to the incredible work of a Dubai-based plastic and reconstructive surgeon.  Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3tocSTq   Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  #UAEnews #Dubai #plasticsurgery

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00:00Today I'm going to talk about a very very interesting reconstructive surgery that we have

00:04completed after eight sessions of surgeries and today the final result is really really beautiful

00:09beyond even my expectations. So we had this patient who's an acid burn victim and she didn't

00:16have eyelids her eye she's become blind there was no space for even an artificial eye socket

00:23she had no nose no upper lip and the whole face was very tight just skin graft on bone.

00:30So I set about planning for this in in 2018. So in the beginning we set a limited goal of making

00:37just the eyelids in the orbit using her own tissues so that she can have an eye prosthesis

00:42but as she got more comfortable with us and we got to know her better she gave me a very

00:47challenging request for making a nose. Now nose can be constructed using forehead skin but she

00:54has no skin in the forehead. We can sometimes use the arm or the forearm to make a nose again

00:59those areas are totally burnt off. So the challenge was that to make a nose obviously we needed to

01:06bring new tissue from somewhere and that will be by microsurgery free flap transfer. There are many

01:11flaps that can be used we can take bone from the ribs and we can construct a nose but it usually

01:17doesn't look so pretty it doesn't look natural. The patient wanted a really nice looking nose

01:23so she set the bar very high. So I set about thinking and then I finally planned for pre-fabricating

01:29a nose on the forearm. There was very little skin available here so I used a tissue expander

01:34initially to blow it up so that we have more skin to play with and we took the sizing of the nose

01:39exactly as to what she wants a small cute nose. We made an acrylic model of it using the acrylic

01:45model then and using ribs from her own ribs bone and cartilage from her own ribs we made a

01:52pre-fabrication of the nose on the forearm. My name is Hiba Hosni and I'm from Egypt.

02:0011 years ago I suffered from an acid attack and my features were affected severely. I didn't have a

02:06nose or lips or eyebrows. It completely erased my features. I've been going through years of pain

02:14and being rejected by my society and it was very difficult to the point that I would always hide my

02:20face when I go out. Five years after the acid attack I came across Dr. Jehan Abdelkader in Dubai

02:27who took my case. We went on a journey that took five years long to rebuild my face.

02:34We also collaborated with Dr. Mohan for whom I am so thankful. Although there were hard times during

02:41this process I had very tough decisions to make but my perseverance and belief in God kept me

02:46going. I knew I would be better if I just kept going. The doctors did an incredible job and the

02:54progress was amazing. Dr. Mohan did so much work to my face and I was very happy with everything

03:01especially since I got just what I wanted. My skin was very damaged. The acid destroyed four

03:08layers of my skin yet he was still able to change my face. He grew a nose which was the

03:14happiest I had felt in such a long time. I am so happy thank God. My confidence in God is never ending.

03:24I can't thank Ahlul Khayr enough for taking care of me bringing me here and sponsoring my operations.

03:38you

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