Dr. Hiren Soni surgeon of the ear, nose, and throat department of the hospital says that for the first time in Vadodara and probably in Gujarat, retro orbit clearance with eyeball preservation surgery was performed. Mucormycosis is a painful disease in which the organs like the jaw, palate, eyes get affected by black or other types of fungus and it has to be removed to save the life of the patient. In these circumstances, the ENT surgeon of the GMERS hospital, Gotri, Dr. Hiren Soni has performed guiding surgery in Vadodara. With the help of the endoscopic system and the state-of-the-art Microdebrider machine, has performed nine prevalent surgeries called Orbital Clearance with Eye Ball Preservation. Simply put, this is a surgery that preserves the aesthetics of the face, mostly by keeping the eyeballs and good muscles of the conjunctiva affected by the fungus intact. Dr. Hiren Soni said that looking at the faces of those who underwent this surgery a few days ago, they are in dilemma

Author-Shlok Talati