VELUPILLAI ILANKOVAN, MBBS, BDS, FRCS, FDSRCS
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Prof. V. Ilankovan is the Medical Director of Wentworth Clinic and a Maxillofacial Surgeon Consultant at Poole Hospital in Dorset.He also practiced cleft lip and palate surgery in India and received additional training in head and neck surgery in Beijing, China, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.Transconjunctival blepharoplasty (lower eyelid surgery) has been revolutionized thanks to his anatomical research on the transconjunctival approach.Prof. Ilankovan is a strong advocate for using the calvarial (skull) bone in reconstructive surgery.He published the technique of minimal access neck dissection with simultaneous free flap reconstruction.
