Cheek Reconstruction

Cheek Reconstruction

Cancer treatments can have a lot of side effects, it deconstructs and damages your body part, its function and even appearance. Cancer Reconstruction surgery may help you in healing this damage. Skin cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer, and many of cancer occurs on the face, including cheeks at frequent. This may affect your skin, making your cheek look extremely sinister and vile. Cheek Reconstruction surgery will help you overcome these damages and will heal your wound to the fullest, making them lifted and soft like original cheeks. Careful patient selection needs to very essential for a successful outcome. The patient prognosis can impact in reconstruction as per several other patients characteristics, like tobacco use, skin laxity,ageor sun exposure. Other factors, such as tumour site & spread, help in deciding on the surgery. Ideally, one should maintain their functional mouth opening, articulation, swallowing, &maintenance of the oral hygiene as well.

A tissue transplant is needed during a cheek surgery; the cheek can be healed either by leg skin or cheek skin itself. This surgery can be done on an old aged person rather than a young person due to their laxity. However, cheek reconstruction has linked side effects with it like burning in the operated area, unconsciousness, sensitivity to sun exposure, etc. There are also some post precautionary measures that should be followed; covering your face with a scarf so that the moisture doesn’t affect, this measure can be avoided once the wound is healed and the scars are perfectly sealed. Drinking a lot of water, avoiding exposure in the sun and taking required medicines will help you achieve a sweeping revival.

Careful patient selection is essential to a successful outcome. Patient prognosis should impact reconstruction, as should several patient characteristics, such as skin laxity, tobacco use, sun exposure, and age. Other factors, including tumour size and spread, must shape surgical decision making as well. Ideally, one would like to maintain functional mouth opening, swallowing, articulation, and maintenance of oral hygiene.5,7