This page lists the transplant hospitals in our directory offering Face Transplant Surgery in Bengaluru, India, including Narayana Health, Manipal Hospitals, Medicover Hospital, Bangalore, Gleneagles Hospitals, Bengaluru and others. Each listing links through to the hospital's full profile page.
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🇮🇳 Narayana Health
Patients considering face transplant surgery can be cared for by Narayana Health's care team in Bengaluru, India, from initial consultation through recovery. Narayana Health, accredited by NABH, follows recognised patient-safety and quality-of-care standards when performing face transplant surgery.
🇮🇳 Manipal Hospitals
Patients considering face transplant surgery can be cared for by Manipal Hospitals's care team in Bengaluru, India, from initial consultation through recovery. Manipal Hospitals, accredited by JCI, NABH, follows recognised patient-safety and quality-of-care standards when performing face transplant surgery.
🇮🇳 Medicover Hospital, Bangalore
Patients considering face transplant surgery can be cared for by Medicover Hospital, Bangalore's care team in Bengaluru, India, from initial consultation through recovery. Medicover Hospital, Bangalore, accredited by NABH, follows recognised patient-safety and quality-of-care standards when performing face transplant surgery.
🇮🇳 Gleneagles Hospitals, Bengaluru
Patients considering face transplant surgery can be cared for by Gleneagles Hospitals, Bengaluru's care team in Bengaluru, India, from initial consultation through recovery. Gleneagles Hospitals, Bengaluru, accredited by NABH, follows recognised patient-safety and quality-of-care standards when performing face transplant surgery.
🇮🇳 Manipal Hospital Malleshwaram (Northside)
Patients considering face transplant surgery can be cared for by Manipal Hospital Malleshwaram (Northside)'s care team in Malleshwaram, Bengaluru, India, from initial consultation through recovery. Manipal Hospital Malleshwaram (Northside), accredited by NABH, NABL, ISO 9001, follows recognised patient-safety and quality-of-care standards when performing face transplant surgery.
🇮🇳 Manipal Hospital, Old Airport Road
Patients considering face transplant surgery can be cared for by Manipal Hospital, Old Airport Road's Transplant department in Bangalore, India, from initial consultation through recovery. Manipal Hospital, Old Airport Road, accredited by NABH, JCI, follows recognised patient-safety and quality-of-care standards when performing face transplant surgery.
🇮🇳 Manipal Hospital Yeshwanthpur (Columbia Asia)
Patients considering face transplant surgery can be cared for by Manipal Hospital Yeshwanthpur (Columbia Asia)'s care team in Yeshwanthpur, Bangalore, India, from initial consultation through recovery. Manipal Hospital Yeshwanthpur (Columbia Asia), accredited by NABH, JCI, follows recognised patient-safety and quality-of-care standards when performing face transplant surgery.
🇮🇳 Manipal Hospital Millers Road (Vikram Hospital)
Patients considering face transplant surgery can be cared for by Manipal Hospital Millers Road (Vikram Hospital)'s care team in Millers Road, Bangalore, India, from initial consultation through recovery. Manipal Hospital Millers Road (Vikram Hospital), accredited by NABH, follows recognised patient-safety and quality-of-care standards when performing face transplant surgery.
🇮🇳 Apollo Hospital, Bannerghatta Road
Patients considering face transplant surgery can be cared for by Apollo Hospital, Bannerghatta Road's care team in Bangalore, India, from initial consultation through recovery. Apollo Hospital, Bannerghatta Road, accredited by JCI, NABH, follows recognised patient-safety and quality-of-care standards when performing face transplant surgery.
🇮🇳 Fortis Hospital, Bannerghatta Road
Patients considering face transplant surgery can be cared for by Fortis Hospital, Bannerghatta Road's care team in Bangalore, India, from initial consultation through recovery. Fortis Hospital, Bannerghatta Road, accredited by NABH, JCI, follows recognised patient-safety and quality-of-care standards when performing face transplant surgery.
How we selected these hospitals
A hospital appears on this page when Transplant is among its listed specialties and it is located in Bengaluru, India. Hospitals are not ranked by a proprietary "best" score — the order follows the listed rating (highest first), the same field shown on each hospital's profile.
How to Select the Best Hospital for Face Transplant Surgery in Bengaluru, India?
Choosing the right hospital for face transplant surgery is one of the most important decisions in your treatment journey. A few factors are worth weighing before you decide:
International Accreditation
Look for a hospital with international accreditation such as JCI or NABH — see the accreditation badges shown for each hospital below.
Specialization
Check that the hospital's listed specialties actually include transplant rather than only general care.
Capacity and Track Record
Bed count and year established (shown below for each hospital) are a reasonable proxy for scale and operating experience.
Transparent Costs
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Understanding Face Transplant Surgery
Face transplant surgery, or facial allotransplantation, is one of the most complex composite tissue transplant procedures in reconstructive surgery, involving the transfer of a donor's facial structures — including skin, muscle, nerves, and vasculature — to a recipient with severe facial disfigurement.
Clinical Overview
- Facial allotransplantation is a vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) — a category distinct from solid organ transplants in that it simultaneously transfers multiple tissue types (skin, subcutaneous fat, muscle, bone, cartilage, mucosa, and peripheral nerves) as a single, perfused anatomical unit.
- The indication arises from severe, unreconstructable facial disfigurement secondary to high-voltage electrical burns, ballistic injuries, oncologic resection, severe chemical burns, or congenital conditions such as neurofibromatosis type 1 with massive plexiform involvement.
- The physiological consequence of such disfigurement extends beyond cosmesis: patients suffer profound functional deficits including inability to eat, speak, breathe spontaneously, or close the eyelids, compounded by severe psychological morbidity including major depressive disorder and social withdrawal.
Who is a Candidate?
- ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES:
- Patients aged 18–60 years with severe, unreconstructable facial disfigurement affecting >25% of the facial surface area
- Disfigurement secondary to: high-voltage electrical burns, ballistic/blast injuries (gunshot wounds), severe thermal or chemical burns, failed or maximal conventional reconstructive surgery, or massive plexiform neurofibromatosis
- Functional deficits in two or more of the following domains: oral incompetence (inability to eat/speak), nasal airway obstruction, corneal exposure due to eyelid loss, or significant midfacial skeletal destruction
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Treatment Options & Approaches
- SURGICAL APPROACHES IN FACIAL ALLOTRANSPLANTATION:
Recovery
- PHASE 1 — PRE-OPERATIVE EVALUATION & LISTING (3–6 months before transplant):
Risks to be aware of
- Facial allotransplantation carries a distinct and serious risk profile that every candidate must understand before proceeding.
- The most critical early risk is vascular thrombosis of the anastomosed artery or vein, which can occur in the first 72 hours and constitutes a surgical emergency requiring immediate return to the operating room for anastomotic revision; failure to salvage the graft within 4–6 hours of ischemia results in complete graft loss.
Why GAF Healthcare
- GAF Healthcare provides comprehensive end-to-end non-medical coordination for international patients traveling to India or the UAE for facial allotransplantation.
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Common questions about Face Transplant Surgery
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This page lists 10 accredited transplant hospitals in Bengaluru, India, so you can compare accreditation, specialties and bed capacity in one place.
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