Do you know that many teenagers actually suffer from a common illness that they are actually not so aware of? This common illness or defect is called pectus excavatum. The illness occurs in the chest area where the center area between the right and left ribs sinks in. It creates a sunken chest. Not many teenagers realize that it is a defect because they grow older with it. This can be fixed.
There is a special type of surgery or procedure that can be conducted to try to fix the defect and it is called the Nuss procedure. Basically, a piece of metal flat is placed underneath the skin where the sunken area is located. That way the skin can look flat as how it is supposed to look normally. There is so much information that can be obtained about this pectus excavatum on the internet. There are websites that provide the information either about the defect itself or how and where to take the Nuss procedure. For infants, the flat metal can be removed after some period of time because over time the skin and bone may reshape to how it is guided by the metal flat so there is no longer a sunken area after the flat is removed.
