During the three-day meeting, several aspects will be discussed with plastic surgeons across the country, including face and hand transplant.
In an attempt to make people understand the nuances of plastic surgery in a scientific manner along with its several sub-specialties, Association of Plastic Surgeons of India (APSI) has chosen a theme "advocacy and mass education" for their 50th annual conference to held in Mumbai from Monday.
During the three-day meeting, several aspects will be discussed with plastic surgeons across the country, including face and hand transplant.
Plastic surgery is a term which is poorly understood by the general public. It is either considered to be aesthetic or cosmetic surgery or treatment of skin and burns.
However, it had been used in different conditions, including surgery for cleft lip palate, craniofacial surgery: Dealing with defects in a baby's skull, Microsurgery: Dealing with very fine work under magnification for complex repairs and transfer of tissues in treating trauma and cancer defects, Brachial Plexus repair: Dealing with nerves of an injured upper limb, among others.
"There is a lot of experiment going on in the field of plastic surgery around the world and one of them is tissue engineering. This deals with the growth of new connective tissues, or organs, from cells and a collagenous scaffold to produce a fully functional organ for implantation back into the donor host. This is a very vast field. Hence, to educate the people and doctors, we have chosen our theme as advocacy and mass education," said Dr Mukud Thatte, former president of APSI.
The golden Jubilee meeting of APSICON will held under the presidentship of Dr Prabha Yadav from Tata Memorial Hospital. She said: "This is the first time face transplant will been discussed in front of our country's plastic surgeons. For this, lecture will be delivered by Dr Maria Siemionow, who performed the first face transplant in the United States. Also, Dr Subramania Iyer, professor and head of the plastic surgery department at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, will talk about hand transplant."
Dr Vinita Puri, Organising secretary, APSI conference, said: "To create awareness among the doctors we have already done a week-long workshop for medical students where we discussed different aspects of plastic surgery. At times burn injury patients come to us only after developing deformity, had the same patient come to us within the golden period, we could perfom a surgery and make him look normal."
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