Training & Experience
Training:
Graduated:
Imperial College School of Medicine, London
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Junior Doctor Rotations:
St Mary's Hospital, London; Wexham Park Hospital, Slough; John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
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Higher Surgical Training:
Oxford Deanery (Health Education Thames Valley)
Observership Academic Medical Centre (AMC) & Nols Trenite Facial Plastics Clinic. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Regional Thames Valley Sub-Specialist Rhinology Fellowship
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Post-Training Fellowships:
Advanced Rhinology Fellowship, Facial Plastics, Sinus & Skull-base Surgery
Guys, Kings and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust, London
Facial Plastics & Rhinoplasty Training
Harley Street, London
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Consultant:
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Wexham
Experience:
It takes over 10,000 hours to truly master a skill. Mr Hettige has acquired key specialist surgical skills having operated successfully on thousands of patients. More specifically he has performed:
SeptoRhinoplasty Procedures:
250+ procedures performed:
- External & Closed (no scar) Approach
- Functional & Cosmetic
- Primary & Revisions
- With Grafting & Reconstruction with Donor Rib Cartilage (Tutoplast)
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Endoscopic Sinus Operations:
750+ Basic, Advanced and Extended procedures, including Sinus Balloon Dilation.
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Septal Procedures:
400+ procedures including primary and revisions
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Tonsils & Adenoids:
750+ procedures
- Adults & Paediatrics
- Traditional Methods (Cold Steel), Bipolar & Modern Techniques (Coblation)
- Tonsillotomy & Tonsillectomy
- For recurrent tonsillitis & Obstructive Sleep Apnoea
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