enhance the looks of a person. Under cosmetic dentistry dental
bonding, dental veneers, these custom-made moldings made of
porcelain or ceramic are perfect for spaces, chips, fractures,
rotated or maligned teeth, distorted, or discoloured teeth. Thanks
to the modern technology and skills of the dentists in South India
both the tourists and the Non Resident Indians have made South
India their favourite dental rehabilitation destination.
Urology: With the change in life style, change in climate and long
working hours have resulted in the increased number of urologic
diseases. Hospitals in South India offer treatment for wide range
of diseases associated with the urinary tract. Treatment is offered
to cases like Laser Lithotripsy, Nephrectomy or Kidney Removal
Surgery, Bladder Cancer Treatment, Endopyelotomy, Endoscopic
Prostate Surgery, Endoscopic Ureterolithotomy, Enlarged Prostate
Treatment , Erectile Dysfunction Treatment , Extracorporeal Shock
Wave Lithotripsy, Glomerulonephritis Treatment, Hydrocele
Treatment, Kidney Stones Removal, Penis Enlargement,
Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy, Peyronie’s Disease Treatment,
Prostate Cancer Treatment, Prostatectomy, Renal Artery Stenosis
Treatment, TURP Surgery, Urinary Incontinence Treatment,
Uterine Cancer Treatment, Vasectomy and Vasectomy Reversal.
Ear, Nose and Throat: Hospitals in these states are placed
among the number one ENT hospitals in the world. This has
helped hospitals in South India in drawing many a health
tourists from many foreign countries. Cochlear Implant for
severely deaf children and adults, sinus endoscopy and
paediatric otorhinol-aryngology are some of the cases to which
treatment is offered by hospitals in South India. The diagnosis
facilities like complete audiometric set-up, electronystagmography testing, Brain Stem Evoked Response Audiometry
(BSERA) and Oto-Aciostic Emission (OAE) are available in these
hospitals. Endoscopy used for reconstructive middle-ear
surgery, surgery of the facial nerve, congenital ear anomalies,
microlaryngeal surgery, surgery for snoring and sleep disorders,
thyroplasty, septoplasty and septorhinoplasty, functional
endoscopic sinus surgery, head and neck cancer surgeries,
revision ear surgeries and phonosurgery.
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Traditional Systems of Medicine
The Touch of Ayurveda: Ayurveda has become a synonym for
Medical Tourism in Kerala and neighbouring states. There has been
a spontaneous growth in South India, especially Kerala for
Ayurveda, which has no competition in the whole world. By
collective effort the name Ayurveda got branded all over the
world. In ancient India every branch of science was developed
abiding nature’s rules. So ancient Indian science and knowledge
are extremely befitting for this age. Though they pursued the
spiritual world, the saints in India longed for finding solutions to
all the issues related to material world as well. It was because
they wanted to redress the grievances of the general public. They
well knew that anybody who works for the common well being
can’t neglect the health of the public. When the Rishis or sages
in India put their heads together to find out a system for solving
the health problems, the result was Ayurveda. As the term
Ayurveda denotes to the knowledge of life it’s not only a system
to cure disease but the regimen teaching us ways to achieve
Perfect Health from diseased or abnormal conditions and
guidelines to lead a life, both physical and mental, to attain the
bliss of real life. Keen observation and study of nature including
all kinds of life in the world for hundreds of years could only have
formulated such a life science which has a concrete basis in Indian
philosophy and wide reaching applicability in life of all sorts. Since
it is holistic, it appro aches man as a whole and cares man’s physical
mental and spiritual health. It’s almost as old as mankind and at
the same time as new as modern man that no disease is there
which is incurable or uncontrollable unless misled too much.
According to ayurveda human body is composed of three
fundamental elements called Doshas which represent the
physicochemical and physiological activities of the body, Dhatu
which denotes the materials entering in to the formation of a
basic structure of the body cell, thereby performing some basic
actions and Malas the substance which are partly used in the body
and partly excreted in yet another from after serving their
physiological activities. The dynamic equilibrium of these leads
to perfect health and imbalance of any of these leads to disease.