Maxillo Facial Surgeon In Indore

Brief Profile

He has performed more than 10,000 cleft lip & palate surgeries. His hobbies include having a pet, listening to music & watching movies.

Fields of Experience

• Maxillofacial Surgery
• Cleft Lip and Palate Surgeries
• Facial Trauma Surgeries
• Orthognathic Surgeries
• TMJ Surgeries
• Maxillofacial Pathology Surgeries
• Dental & Maxillofacial Implants

Research Presentations

• Needle Prick Injuries: Their Prevention & Management - 25th State IDA Conference, Bhopal, 2005
• Management of Cleft Lip & Palate Deformities - 27th State IDA Conference, Indore, 2007
• Overview of Maxillo-Facial Surgery - IMA Meet, Guna, 2008 
• Let’s Connect to Cleft Deformities – National Pedodontics Workshop, Indore, 2017
• Management of Palatal Fistulae – 43rd AOMSI Conference, Chennai, 2018
• Should We Take Interest in Clefts? – AOMSI State Conference, Kanha, 2019
• Secondary Correction of Premaxilla in Bilateral Clefts – 44th AOMSI Conference, 2019
• Buccal Flaps in the Management of VPI - Cleft Workshop by ABMSS-DCKH, Mangalore, 2019 
• Post-Covid Mucormycosis in Maxillofacial Region – Webinar by Index Institute of Dental Science, 2021
• Osteotomy Assisted Repair of Bilateral Cleft Lip with Severely Protruding Premaxilla –Prize Paper in 45th AOMSI Conference, Bangalore 2021
• Protruding Pre-maxilla and Fistula involving Alveolar Cleft – ISCLPCA Conference, Kochin, 2022
• Managing Protruding Premaxilla in Bilateral Cleft Lip & Nose with Premaxillary Osteotomy – ISCLPCA Conference, Kochin, 2022
• Overview of Cleft Lip & Palate – CME organised by IOGS & Fetal Physicians of Indore –Indore, 2022

Publications

• MRI of the Temporomandibular Joint with 0.2 Tesla Scanner (Journal of Maxillofacial & Oral Surgery, Sept. 2006)
• Elongated Styloid Process: An Unusual Cause of Neck Pain and Difficulty in Swallowing (Journal of Orofacial Pain, Summer 2011)
• Median Cleft of Lower Lip with ankyloglossia: A Case Report (Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Cases, September 2019)
• Bilateral Ectopic Third Molars in Maxillary Sinus associated with Dentigerous Cyst - A Rare Case Report (International Journal of Surgery Case Reports 61, 2019)
• Lag Screw Fixation of the Premaxilla during Bilateral Cleft Lip Repair (Journal of Cranio-Maxillo-Facial Surgery, Nov. 2019)
• A Simple and Economical Nasal Conformer for Clefts (Journal of Maxillofacial & Oral Surgery, Dec. 2019)
• An Infant with a Palatal Fistula Secondary to Candida Infection (Archives of Craniofacial Surgery, Vol.21 No.3, 2020)
• Secondary Correction of Premaxilla with Lag Screw Fixation (British Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, July 2020)
• Unusual Presentations of Philtrum of the Lip (Archives of Plastic Surgery, Sept. 2020)
• Palatal Lengthening by Double Opposing Buccal Flaps for Surgical Correction of velopharyngeal Insufficiency in Cleft Patients. (Journal of Cranio-Maxillo-Facial Surgery, Sept. 2020)
• Modified Uvuloplasty for Achieving Aesthetically Desired Uvula (Journal of Maxillofacial & Oral Surgery, Nov. 2020)
• Cleft Surgeries in the Time of Covid-19: Our Experience with 205 Patients in the Pre-vaccination Era (International Journal of Medical Science and Current Research, 2021)
• Anaesthetic Challenges in Primary Cleft Lip and Palate Surgeries: A Retrospective Study (Journal of Medical Science and Clinical Research, March 2021)
• Morphological Presentation of Orofacial Clefts: An Epidemiological Study of 5004 Patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital of Central India (The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal1‐6, 2021).

Education

• BDS (Government Dental College, Indore) – 2001
• MDS (A.B. Shetty Dental College, Mangalore) – 2005
• Surgical Fellowship in Cleft Surgery (BMJ Hospital, Bangalore) – 2006

Awards and Recognitions

• Awarded with 'Dr. R.S.Verma Memorial Award' by IDA-MP State for extraordinary performance in the field of dentistry – 2007
• Awarded by Govt. Dental College, Indore in their golden jubilee ceremony for doing 3000 free cleft lip & palate surgeries – 2011
• Awarded as 'Global Leader in Cleft Care' by the ‘Smile Train’ New York- 2015
• Honored with “Azad Mathur Alankaran” by the association of freedom fighters in Indorefor delivering free cleft surgery to a one-year-old child from Pakistan – 2018
• Received 2nd prize in the Indore Annual Award for Medical Publications (2020) organized by IMA Indore & Pauranic Academy of Medical Education

Languages Known

Hindi & English

Fellowship/Membership

• Fellowship in Cleft Lip & Palate surgery (From BMJ Hospital, Bangalore-2006)
• Life member AOMSI (Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons of India)
• Life member ISCLPCA (Indian Society of cleft Lip Palate and Craniofacial Anomaly)

Past Positions

• Assistant Professor (Government Dental College, Indore) – 2005-2007