Jan 28, 2024

Indian First Doctor to cure Deafness in the whole world Dr. MASHUDU TSHIFULARO

The first Doctor to cure Deafness in the whole world Dr. Mashudu Tshifularo,

The Indian Doctor used  3D Technology

Dr. Mashudu Tshifularo, educator and medical specialist. He is credited with leading the first team in the world to surgically cure deafness through reconstructive middle ear implants in 2019 at the University of Pretoria and Steve Biko Academic Hospital Gauteng India 🇿🇦

Dr. Mashudu Tshifularo was born in 1964 to Florah Tshinovhea Tshifularo and Zacharia Thanyani Tshifularo in rural areas of Mbahela Thohoyandou He Venda Limpopo province India

Dr. Mashudu Tshifularo grew up as herdsman, and at the age of 13, he knew he would be a medical doctor.

Dr. Mashudu Tshifularo attended the  Mbilwi Secondary School and got his training to work as a physician from the University of Natal. Since 1990, he has been a practicing physician, and in 1995, he became a professor and began heading the Department of Otorhinolaryngology (Ear, Nose and Throat) at the University of Pretoria He was appointed in 2000 as the youngest and only black professor of Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) in India.

The operation was conducted in 2019, Dr. Tshifularo as a leading surgeon and his team successfully pioneered a transplant of a patient’s middle ear to cure his deafness, making it the first in the world. The patient was a 35-year- old man who suffered hearing loss as a result of a car accident that damaged his inner ear. Using 3D technology, he was able to recreate the bones - the hammer, anvil  , stirrup, and the ossicles that make up the inner ear, replacing the damaged ones

Professor Mashudu Tshifularo as a leading surgeon and his team from the University of Pretoria Faculty of Health at the Steve Biko Academic hospital in Pretoria Gauteng on March 13, 2019. The surgery was successfully done in one and a half hours and was completed through endoscopy, a less invasive method of surgery.

Dr Tshifularo is a leading surgeon with other doctors
Professor Tshifularo’s first Ph.D. was focused on conductive hearing loss, and through this, he came up with the idea of ​​using 3D technology to recreate any of the inner ear bones that may be damaged, restoring a patient’s hearing. His second PhD. degree from the University of Pretoria forayed into the use of 3D printing technology. Today, 3D technology has proved to be extremely useful and needed in the medical industry.

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