Boy who lost his nose after being treated by quack doctor has another one grown on his FOREHEAD

A 12-year-old boy who lost his nose to a severe infection was able to grow another one – on his forehead. Indian doctors performed the remarkable procedure on Arun Patel whose nose had disappeared after the tissue shriveled and died following treatment by rogue doctors when he was a baby.

Village doctors, with no medical training, administered injections to his face when he was just one month old, causing the tissue to die and drop off.

But thanks to unusual plastic surgery, the boy, from Indore, had a nose reconstructed on his forehead before it was transplanted into place.

Speaking to MailOnline, Dr Ashwini Dash, who led the surgical team said the procedure involved several stages.

‘Arun Patel’s nose had disappeared due to a side-effect of an injection when he was just one-month-old,’ he said.

‘A normal rhinoplasty was not possible on Arun’s face as his nose had almost disappeared.

‘Therefore, we decided to perform a special plastic surgery on him, which is medically called as ‘pre-fabricated forehead flap rhinoplasty’, he said.