BAOMS members appear in BBC documentary on surgeons

05 January 2018 (Last updated: 5 Jan 2018 16:10)

British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (BAOMS) members Sat Parmar and Tim Martin, both based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, feature in a new BBC documentary that looks beyond the theatre doors of the hospital’s surgical unit. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life series starts on Monday 8 January at 9pm on BBC2.

In the first episode, The Longest Day, specialist maxillofacial surgeons Tim Martin and Sat Parmar prepare for a marathon operation on a patient. Teresa was diagnosed with a fast-growing, terminal cancerous tumour in her face, and the radical surgery she undergoes means she will lose both her upper jaw and right eye.

To give the patient the best possible outcome, Sat Parmar and Tim Martin intend to fill the cavity left in her face with a section of bone and muscle removed from her hip, using a 3D-printed plastic guide to help them cut out the correct shaped bone.

Sat Parmar said: “This type of surgery is made possible because of the team of experts we have with a wide range of skills. This includes the theatre team, anaesthetists, ITU, ward staff, dietetics, outpatients, maxillofacial prosthetists, McMillan cancer nurses, speech and language therapists.”

As Tim Martin explains, the operation he and Sat carry out in Birmingham clearly demonstrates the high level of skills needed by OMFS “and this is representative of what oral and maxillofacial surgeons do across the country”.

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