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Mr Malcom Cameron

Malcolm is a consultant oral and maxillofacial, head and neck surgeon and, with experience spanning three decades, is a hugely respected member of the Addenbrooke’s team.

Malcom Cameron

His main areas of work involve facial and mouth cancer and reconstruction as well as facial trauma. In addition to his clinical work, he teaches head and neck anatomy at St Edmunds college to pre-clinical students and also supervises clinical medical students at Cambridge University. He is an author of many papers and a contributor to ‘Essential Surgery’ a leading undergraduate surgical textbook. He is a reviewer of papers for British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

Like Vijay, he is called at short notice to deal with severe emergency cases. He looks after adults and children who have suffered facial trauma and also undertakes implant retained facial prosthetics for these and oncology patients.

He is filmed undertaking surgeries including a jaw reconstruction after patient Jack fell from an e-scooter. He and ophthalmic surgeon, Cornelius Rene, also join forces to help Terry, who has a serious infection in his face.

When he is not busy helping patients, Malcolm enjoys running and likes to relax with his bees or by working on his great grandfather’s wood turning lathe.

Malcolm with his colleague Cornelius, being interviewed for The Face Doctors

Link: https://youtu.be/RVZY8ZXwitM

Video Transcript

The most enjoyable part of The Face Doctors filming was a young man

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who'd come back to the clinic after falling off his e-scooter.

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He had a pretty torn up face

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but when he came back to the clinic,

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I was just so delighted with how good he looked.

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He was happy and his mother was happy.

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So that was the most lifting moment throughout the whole series.

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One of my favorite moments was actually seeing the patient who had her eye removed.

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It was amazing to see the transformational change

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when she had her first prosthesis fitted.

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I see lots of patients here, but most of them won't know that at home

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and around the farms, in the fields where I live, I keep lots of beehives

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and it is the most wonderful hobby.

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I don't quite often broadcast this,

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but I'm the first black consultant ocular plastic surgeon in the UK.

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There are only about 2% of ophthalmologists who identify as black

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in the UK, and about 6% of doctors in general identify as black.

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To be the first black ocular plastic surgeon is a great privilege

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and I'm hopeful that I've had the opportunity

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to be a trailblazer and to inspire the next generation.