As a focused professionalist, witnessing the increasing prevalence of oral cancer in our country, she trained herself working in various institutes under leading oncosurgeons of the country to serve cancer patients with sympathy and emphathy. She is doing good work in the field of oncosurgery and contributing towards the prevention and management of the disease. Resection and radical neck dissection followed by various options for reconstruction has drawn the attention in today’s scenario where achieving the function with minimal morbidity is the key. The ladder for reconstruction has evolved over decades where local and regional flaps are now gradually getting replaced with free microvascular flaps. The rehabilitation using microvascular flaps that can incorporate both hard and soft tissue replacement with later incorporation of dental implants in the vascularized bone segments is the emerging trend in the field of maxillofacial surgery.
