Ahilasamy Nagalingeswaran
Brief Profile:
Dr. Ahilasamy received his masters in ENT (Ear-Nose-Throat) from Madras Medical College, Chennai, in 1998 and his DNB (National Board) in 1999. Following this, he did a fellowship in Edinburgh (UK) in 2003, and then he worked at the Royal Hospital in Sunderland (UK) under Mr. Peter Samuel in the ENT department. Subsequently, he worked with Prof. K.K. Ramalingam and Dr. Ravi Ramalingam and headed their peripheral centre for 8 years before starting his own medical facility, Ahilasamy ENT Centre, in 2006. He has extensive experience in providing medical care to patients from both urban and rural areas and has implemented over 550 free ENT Camps for all.
His recent interest is in the newer surgical management of Allergic Sinusitis, in which he is the pioneer surgeon in India. He has participated in many awareness programs on ENT diseases in various telemedia (Sun TV, Sun News TV, Jaya TV, Polimer TV, etc.). He has featured in more than 550 videos on YouTube with an aggregate of 10 million views, mainly for the benefit of ENT surgeons around the world.
Notable Achievements
Dr Ahilsamy is renowned for Endoscopic Ear and Sinus surgeries under local anaesthesia. He is the pioneer and only one who introduced modern Surgeries For nasal Allergy – Posterior nasal neurectomy and Mini Turbinoplasty – Tunneling tech in India.
He is the first person in the world to introduce and perform Totally Scarless Tympanoplasties and Mastoidectomies for CSOM (Ear discharge). He has innovated a few ENT surgical instruments too. One of them, Dr. Ahila's diathermy round knife for endoscopic ear surgery ( patented), Dr. Ahila’s Conchal Crusher, Dr. Ahila’s Uncinate dissector, Micro chisel for Endoscopic Ear surgery is famous all over the world. He has done over 9,500 endoscopic nose and sinus surgeries, 250 endoscopic skull base surgeries for various skull base and brain tumours, and 3,200 endoscopic (Scarless) ear surgeries, apart from other routine ENT surgeries, in his 25 years of service.
Expertise and Innovative Techniques Introduced by Dr. Ahilasamy
Turbinate Surgery and Mini Turbinoplasty – Own Tunnelling Technique
Mini FESS (for All isolated Maxillary and sphenoidal pathology under LA)
PNN- Postr. Nasal Neurectomy for Nasal Allergy
Scarless Endoscopic Ear Surgery for Ear discharge
Septal Abscess management – My technique
Foreign body removal from Ear, Nose, Throat, especially in Children as OPD procedure
Mostly all Nasal , Sinus and Ear Surgeries Under Local Anesthesia as daycare procedure
National and International Teacher & Faculty for ENT Surgeons on ENT surgeries ant treatment.
Innovated many Ent Instruments and Surgical Techniques
Dr. Ahila’s Fizz sign – CT finding in Acute Sinusitis
Dr.Ahila’s Supra maxillary Cell.
Session
Challenges in Management of JNAs