Mr Bhagwat Mathur

Qualifications: MBBS, MS, MCh (Plastic Surgery), FRCS (London)

Professional memberships: GMC Specialist register, Royal College of Surgeons England, British Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (BAPRAS), Breast Reconstruction and Aesthetic Surgery Association of India (BRASA India), Consortium of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Clinic Owners

Years in practice: 45

GMC no. 5197374

Mr Bhagwat S Mathur is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at the world-renowned St Andrew’s Centre for Plastic Surgery and Burns, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, with over four decades of surgical experience. He qualified in 1979 from the University of Rajasthan, India. Bhagwat undertook specialist plastic surgery training in breast and microsurgery at the Canniesburn Unit, Glasgow and St Andrew’s Centre, Chelmsford complimented by international fellowships in Germany and Switzerland. His career spans NHS and private practice across the Middle East, Scotland, Wales, and England.

A top plastic surgeon in Essex, Bhagwat is celebrated for his combination of surgical precision and classically trained artistic judgement, with exceptional attention to the lines, curves, shadows, and symmetry of the human body. His NHS work includes skin cancer treatment, breast cancer reconstruction, and body contouring following extensive weight loss, and he leads skin cancer services in Clacton and Chelmsford, contributing to their respective multidisciplinary teams.

In private practice, Bhagwat focuses on dermatologic surgery, anti-ageing regenerative treatments, and specialised breast surgery, including secondary corrections, contour deformities, and refinement of reconstructed breasts. His expertise is widely recognised nationally and internationally, and he is a published author, invited speaker, and visiting professor, delivering prestigious orations including the Sushruta Oration and Godina Oration.

As Founder and Lead Clinician of Kirbha Clinic, he has established a consultant-led model of care, ensuring every patient benefits from senior expertise, personalised treatment planning, meticulous follow-up, and outcomes shaped by experience, skill, and integrity.

Bhagwat’s Philosophy

“I am passionate about giving my patients the most natural looking results with the shortest possible recovery times. My focus for every patient is careful listening, attention to detail, up-to-date knowledge, technical excellence, and compassionate care. As someone with comprehensive and extensive plastic surgery training from the pioneers, I aim to tailor the most appropriate and safe techniques to rejuvenate, reconstruct and restore as per your specific body needs and desires. You are my priority, and how you feel matters to me”

Mr Bhagwat Mathur

Publications:

Sensation-Sparing Correction of Inverted Nipples Using the ‘Drawbridge’ Flap Approach
Mathur B and Loh  C
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (2019) 43(2)

Developmental Breast Asymmetry
Chan WY, Mathur BS, Sharman DS, Ramakrishnan V.
Breast J 2011 Jul-Aug17(4):391-8

The 100 steps of a DIEP flap- A Prospective Comparative Cohort Series Demonstrating the Successful Implementation of Process Mapping in Microsurgery.
Sharma HR, Rozen WM, Mathur B, Ramakrishnan V
PRS Global Open 2018

Salvage of a Diep flap using a retrograde flow anastomosis
Caulfield RH, Maleki Tabrizi A, Mathur B, Ramakrishnan V
J Plastic Reconstr Aesthetic Surg 2008;61(3):346-7

Fat transfer using an epidural needle
Wong CJ, Mathur B, Ramakrishnan V
J Plast Reconstr Aesthetic Surg 2008Aug:61(8):905

The transverse myocutaneous gracilis flap: technical refinements
Fateh A, Figus A,Mathur B,Ramakrishnan VV
J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2010Feb:63(2)305

Breast Reconstruction: A Qualitative Assessment of the Quality of information Available to Patients.
Macdonald C, Lloyd M, Mathur B, Ramakrishnan V
J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg.-D-10-00510   Online publication

Rigotomy Using Myringotomy Blades Prior to Lipofilling
Mathur B and  Loh C
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (2019)

Precision and suture Nipple sharing: An undervalued technique in nipple reconstruction
Fribel TR, Gardiner S, Naji S, Mathur BS Annals of breast surgery 2018;2:16

Positioning in otoplasty. Experience with 380 cases. Mathur BS, Shokrollahi KJ Plast
Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2010Mar:63(3):571-2

Perforator flaps of the facial artery angiosome
Kannan RY, BS Mathur
J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2013 Apr 66(4):483-488

Varied uses of Medial Sural Artery Perforator flap
Ives M, MathurB
J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2015Jun;68(6):853-858

The transverse Lumbar perforator: an anatomic and clinical study.
Mathur BS, Tan SS, Bhat FA, Rozen WM.
J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2016 Jun:69(6):770-776

Transverse Lumbar Flap for Sacral Bed Sores
Rawat S.S. and Mathur BS
Plast Reconstr Surg, 1991 Jul Vol. 88, No. 1:154 –158

Free flap surgery in the elderly: Experience with 110 cases aged above 70 years in Elderly population
Sierakowski A, Nawar A, Parker M, Mathur B
J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. (2017) 70(2)189-195

Single flap reconstruction for complex orofacial defects using chimeric free fibular flap variants
KannanRY, Mathur BS,Tzefetta K
J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2013Mar,66(3):358-63

A useful alternative surgical technique to reconstructing large defects following excision of recurrent pilonidal sinus disease in intergluteal region: An operative approach for the transverse lumbar artery perforator flap.

Tan AM, Ahmad Z, Loh CY, Gardiner S, Mathur B
Int Wound J. 2018;15:534

Medium Thickness Plantar Skin Graft for the management of Digital and Palmar Flexion contracture
Bunyan AR, Mathur BS
Burns Vol. 26 (2000) 575 – 580

Large fasciocutaneous perforator-based v-y advancement flap for large post mastectomy wound reconstruction- Our experience with three cases
Lim E-H, Mathur B, Niranjan NS, Ramakrishnan V
J Plast. Reconstr. Aesthetic Surg   2006;59(10):1073-5

Large dorsal intercostal perforator flap in extensive neurofibromatosis.
Bramhall RJ, Mathur B, Ramakrishnan V.
Plast Reconstr Surg. 2008 Jun;121(6):2178-9; author reply 2179-80

Management of inguinal lymphadenopathy: Immediate Sartorius transposition and reconstruction of recurrence with pedicled ALT flap
Gravvanis A,Caulfield R,Mathur B,Ramakrishnan V
Ann Plast Surg.2009 Sept. 63(3)307-10

Congenital vascular malformation associated with multiple cranial, vertebral and upper limb skeletal abnormalities
Marsden N, Shokrollahi K, Maw K, Sierakowski A, Bhat F, Mathur B
Ann R Coll Surg Engl  2010 Jul:92(5):W18-20

St. Andrew’s Covid-19 surgery safety (StACS) study: Elective plastic surgery, trauma and burns.
Miranda BH, Hughes WRM, Pinto-Lopes R, Mathur BS, Ramakrishnan VV, Sood MK
JAPRAS (2021) 74. 211-222