Vijay Pothula

Consultant ENT Surgeon

FRCS, FRCS (ORL-HNS), Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trusts, UK.

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Photo showing an article in The Gentleman’s Magazine in 1794 described the operation of making a nose from a forehead flap, accompanied by an engraving of the patient with the restored nose

Sushruta and Indian rhinoplasty

3 March 2021 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus

Vijay Pothula explains rhinoplasty’s roots in ancient Indian Ayurvedic medicine, and how it was introduced to the Western world. In 1794 The Gentleman’s Magazine published a surgical operation which was long established in India but unknown in Europe [1]. A...