Dr. Dinh fixed the problem by making small changes to a surgery method he had used on past patients. But those cases were of life-threatening openings on the upper front part of their bodies.
“We have a procedure to bring a muscle flap to cover the exposed heart and to reconstruct the chest wall, for example, and reconstruct the sternum, and that keeps the heart covered.”
Tue Dinh was born in Vietnam and moved to the United States with his family in nineteen seventy-five. But he has returned to his birth country many times with his brother and sister who are also doctors. They like to help people there.
“I just have an emotional attachment, ans so my brother and I, and my sister too, go back to Vietnam and we try to go back practically every year.”
Among those Dr. Dinh is helping in Vietnam is seven-year-old, Thien Nhan. His case is well-known in the country. The boy was severely hurt in an attack by wild animals when he was a baby.
Dr. Dinh is making needed repairs to Thien Nhan’s body. But, he says improving the boy's appearance helps him psychologically.
Dr. Dinh says progress in the use of stem cells and other techniques may permit him to do even more for such patients.
“Hopefully, in the near future, we can create something that is completely new from the lab and transfer and create. This is an exciting time to be a plastic surgeon."
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