Nhung’s patients are always special and stick with the doctor for a long journey. T. is the same. 3 years ago, T. came to the Central Hospital of Odonto-Stomatology after undergoing surgery after a firecracker exploded and destroyed his face. When she took off her mask, Dr. Nhung was startled to see that the boy’s entire nose and mouth were blown away, his jaw was so tight that he couldn’t open his mouth. Living on a tube, the boy was extremely skinny.
“This was a very difficult case. The boy lost his entire face, lost all his soft tissue, and the wound was oozing pus. If we operated, the entire lip would be scarred, making it very difficult to reshape. But we had to do it. The boy’s eyes were pitiful and understanding,” Nhung recounted.
She promised the mother standing hesitantly next to her: “We will try, but we cannot restore the face immediately, we can only help the baby stop the pus, stop the inflammation, and be able to eat and drink.” The surgery with Nhung was only truly successful and filled with emotion when she heard the boy cry out in “pain”.
3 years after being freed from jaw stiffness and being able to eat and drink, T. was still very self-conscious and did not dare to take off his mask when going out. At the end of 2024, in a humanitarian surgery program at E Hospital, T. received another surgery from Dr. Nhung, who took skin from his thigh to shape his lower lip. A few years later, T. continued to have her upper lip shaped and had to go through many stages to have a perfect face.
In her phone, many former patients consider Dr. Nhung as a sister in the family. There are people whose entire faces are deformed, with no visible eyes or nose; there are patients with large tumors covering their entire faces, making microsurgery very difficult; there are people with malignant tumors who are desperate to live; there are cases of tongue cancer at a very young age...
Nhung confided that she can do dozens of cosmetic surgeries a day, but her emotions are gone. As for reconstructive surgery in pathology, it can take dozens of hours to operate, some cases end at midnight, so each surgery is full of emotions. Seeing patients recover and confidently reintegrate into life is what Nhung is gathering joy for every day.
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