Dr. Pushkar Mehra Featured On WCVB For World Class Surgical Repair
On Wednesday, September 9, local news channel WCVB featured a story about a surgical repair performed by Chair of the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) Dr. Pushkar Mehra. The story is about French teenager Pearl Beck, who desperately needed help repairing damage to her jaw after a less than successful surgery in France.
After hearing clicking and feeling pain in her jaw for some time, Beck decided to undergo surgery at the French hospital. While this surgery required Beck to have her jaw wired shut for eight weeks, it left the teenager with some complicated oral problems.
“Slowly, over the next few months, her jaw started to grow back into her airway,” Dr. Mehra is heard explaining during the WCVB news story.
After the surgery in France, Beck and her family were looking to GSDM, and Dr. Mehra, to provide her with the world’s best oral surgery. They wanted Beck to simply have a healthy jaw again, and they turned to Dr. Mehra to make that happen.
Dr. Mehra is shown on camera several times during the WCVB story. At one point he is shown giving viewers a quick lesson with a model jaw and explaining the process of replacing a Temporomandibular joint (TMJ), the procedure that Beck needed.
“This is Pearl’s jaw” said Dr. Mehra while holding the model. “And the problems are in the joint, in the lower jaw that’s growing back and the teeth that are not touching together.”
Throughout the WCVB story, video shots of Boston Medical Center, and the OMFS facilities at GSDM are shown.
“Dr. Mehra’s abilities as an oral surgeon are certainly world class,” said Dean Jeffrey W. Hutter. “I am proud of Dr. Mehra and the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery for rising to the challenge and performing this much needed corrective surgery for Ms. Pearl Beck.”
The WCVB story ends with Beck explaining how she feels about the corrective surgery performed by Dr. Mehra.
The video can be viewed here.