Surgery Godfather
Chapter 789 - 707: He Comes from the Marvel World

Chapter 789: Chapter 707: He Comes from the Marvel World

The only way to explain it would be if he, like himself, frequently performed secret surgeries. Otherwise, where would the multitude of surgeries come from?

Upon having this thought, Ivan was once again confounded. If Professor Yang was also involved in black-market surgeries, why would he show no interest in the Italian’s surgery, which would offer a commission of no less than one million dollars?

In any case, these matters were full of contradictions. Ivan found it somewhat mind-boggling, so he temporarily set the question aside and continued paying attention to the surgery.

Yang Ping began shaping the auricle. Due to severe burns, the skin of the ear had scarred and contracted, resulting in a noticeable deformation of the auricle. Now, he needed to reshape the auricle, restoring its normal appearance and the ability to collect sound waves.

Typically, auricle shaping needs to be performed over two stages. The first stage involves repairing the remaining ear, completing the formation of the earlobe, subcutaneously adding a tissue expander to the skin around the ear and injecting it with fluids. The second stage involves carrying out complete auricle shaping, using costal cartilage as the material and carving it into a support structure for the auricle, which is then implanted under the skin and wrapped in the fascia. After the auricle stands upright, skin grafting is performed on the back of the ear.

The entire process consists of numerous steps and consumes a substantial amount of time. But Teacher Sun’s case was different - his auricular deformation was caused by scarring contraction from burns.

So, Ivan created a new surgical method that involved reconstructing and reshaping the existing auricular cartilage and then grafting skin onto it. Although this surgery only required one phase, it demanded exceptionally high operative ability.

This technique had several challenge points. First, modifying the shape of the auricle on the cartilage was highly difficult. For instance, certain parts needed to be curved more, others had to be straightened, some places needed to be lengthened, and others to be shortened. Holistic consideration of the auricular cartilage was necessary.

Second, when cutting and loosening the scar on the auricle, one must simultaneously maintain a layer of vascularized soft tissue adhering to the cartilage. This required immense skill with the scalpel. It was imperative not to leave the tissue too thick while preserving the intact vascular network. Such skill with the scalpel was basically the pinnacle of plastic surgery, exceeding even the demand of controlling skin graft thickness in surgery with a scalpel.

The final point was that bandaging was also extremely important. It not only applied pressure to the skin graft but also served to fix and adjust the shape of the auricle.

In other words, the design of the gauze bandage for the bandaging process was very delicate - it was absolutely a technical task.

The sharp scalpel in Yang Ping’s hand was very nimble. The scar was completely cut off, and the soft tissue, which was to act as a base for the skin graft, was left on the auricular cartilage. Yang Ping made very proficient adjustments to the auricle. After executing a series of procedures including straightening, bending, lengthening, and shortening, he tried to reshape the auricle and was quite satisfied.

In the subsequent skin grafting and gauze twisting, Yang Ping’s movements were smooth and seasoned, as though he had performed this type of surgery for several decades.

The shaping of the auricle was easily completed. Naturally, the formation of the nostrils was even more straightforward. The difficulty of forming the nostrils lay in creating naturally symmetrical shapes. Any improper handling could compromise the appearance of the entire face.

Teacher Sun now looked like a completely different person, almost indistinguishable from a normal one. Of course, next came the need to train his facial expressions.

This training was very meticulous. Apart from training the expression muscles, it was also necessary to fine-tune the tension of the facial skin; some areas needed to be relaxed and made more elastic while others had to be tightened. Only then would the expressions appear natural; otherwise, they’d look very stiff.

For instance, some middle-aged and older people in pursuit of youth undergo face-lifting surgeries. The so-called face lift is a facial tightening procedure that tightens the slack skin and fascia of the face, removes the excess skin and fascia after the tightening, and does indeed have the effect of "rejuvenating and revitalizing".

However, this kind of surgery has a major flaw in that it severely compromises facial expressions. Every surgery reduces facial expressions by about 15%, which results in postoperative stiffness and unnatural expressions.

To Ivan, treating facial expressions was also an integral part of surgery, and moreover, Ivan was an expert in this area, possessing remarkably sophisticated technical details.

"What do you think, Dr. Ivan? Is it up to standard?" Having completed the surgery, Yang Ping asked Ivan to once again check the process.

"Perfect score!"

Ivan had observed the entire surgery just now and was left speechless. The outcome of this surgery was on par with his own expertise.

Large question marks appeared again in Ivan’s mind. This procedure of forming in one surgery originated from his teacher at that time. After he had improved it himself, this advanced technique emerged. He didn’t teach this technique to many people, so why was Yang Ping able to do it so beautifully?

Read his book? It’s impossible to become proficient right after reading a book; such a person doesn’t exist.

Could it be that Yang Ping studied with a few of his students?

Unlikely. Ivan knew the skill level of his few students, which was far from aligning with Yang Ping’s.

Could he have studied with his teacher?

That was also unlikely, completely incongruent in terms of age.

Director Lan, standing by, was also dumbfounded. He had been working at Sanbo Hospital for twenty years, and he had been the Head of the Plastic Surgery Department for almost six or seven years. He had never known that the Comprehensive Surgery Department of Sanbo Hospital had such a high level of plastic surgery expertise.

"If just judging from surgical style, you and I were taught by the same person." Ivan couldn’t help mentioning his suspicions.

When it comes to plastic surgery, every surgeon has their own style. This style carries a sense of inheritance and personal characteristics.

It’s like football. Brazil has Brazilian styles, England has English styles, and of course, China also has its own unique style, even the team’s diet is different.

The formation of surgical style requires the refinement of many cases. It’s something on the soul level of the surgery, and it’s impossible to acquire the same surgical style by reading a book and following the procedure.

"Really? Our styles are quite similar. Perhaps our aesthetic sensibilities are similar too," Yang Ping explained.

He certainly couldn’t admit that he achieved his level of skill by merely reading Ivan’s book since this might upset Ivan.

"Ivan, he has read your book before, so what’s yours becomes his, it’s that simple," Song Zimo directly blurted out.

Song Zimo was fully aware of Yang Ping’s knack. An extraordinary genius who mastered all aspects of surgery to perfection after a single reading. This wasn’t the first time something like this happened.

Ivan had yet to react.

Song Zimo continued: "You don’t need to find it strange. Some things that can’t be figured out are like your mathematics compared to Gauss, your surgery skills compared to Professor Yang. Just accept the reality with eyes closed, thinking too much could burn out your brain."

Is this some kind of joke? Reading my book once, he can easily pull off the surgery, and do it so beautifully. Then what is my strict training of many years?

"Brother, I would suggest you to just watch closely. Don’t overthink it. We are ordinary people, he is half-man, half-god. If you insist on asking why according to common sense, ten psychologists will not be enough to help you through." Robert understood Ivan’s distress.

"I was almost trapped in it, too. Luckily, I’m smart enough to think in a different way. You should too, or else, you will get stuck and that will ruin your life. Take care, brother," Robert said, patting Ivan’s shoulder, who looked somewhat dull.

August chuckled bitterly: "He’s right, don’t get stuck in it. Take care, brother. You still have many years to live."

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