DEPARTMENT OF PLASTIC SURGERY
The department of plastic surgery offers the following main services.
1. Treatment of burns: Thermal, chemical and electrical burns.
2. Hand injuries : Ludhiana being a industrial city, there is huge number of workers who sustain hand injuries in machine accidents. Limbs of several such patients have been salvaged with successful repair of nerves , vessels tendons and bones.
3. Facial injuries : Treatment of facial injuries including soft tissue injuries and bones is done in the best possible way to restore both function and appearance.
4. Wound coverage : It is done in both acute traumatic and chronic non healing wounds with the help of flaps and skin grafts. Vacuum assisted closure ( VAC) is the latest adjunct in the armamentarium to achieve quick results.
5. Cosmetic surgery: Hair transplantation. Liposuction, abdominoplasty , breast surgery and rhinoplasty
6. Others: Correction of congenital deformities, post burn contractures, scars, skin tumors.
