The many aspects of Reconstructive Surgery

What does it consist of?

Plastic Surgery is not limited to strictly cosmetic surgery.  In reality, its strength is in a very broad facet of the same field, reconstructive surgery, where I should mention some of the suffering that we most frequently manage:

Surgery for Facial Trauma

          Facial Fractures

          Ear Trauma

          Facial Wounds

Reconstructive Surgery for the Adult

• Senile ptosis of the eyelids (drooping eyelids in the senior adult)
• After effects of facial paralysis
• After effects of facial trauma

Hand surgery

• Reconstructive surgery of the hand due to trauma (resulting from an accident)
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Tenosynovitis (tendonitis)
• Synovial or ganglion cyst
• Nerve and tendon injuries including the bones of the hand
• Severe hand injuries and trauma

Pediatric plastic surgery

• Cleft lip and palate
• Facial deformity
• Syndactylia (joined fingers or toes)
• Polydactylia (extra fingers or toes)
• Absense of the outer ear (microtia)
• Deformities of the ear
• Prominent ears
• Eyelid ptosis (drooping upper eyelids)
• Coloboma, epicanthal folds and all congenital deformities of the eyelids (present from birth)

Head and Neck Tumors

• Skin cancer
• Basal cell cancer
• Squamous cell carcinoma
• Melanoma
• Actinic Keratosis
• Moles
• Reconstructive facial surgery after cancer operations

• Breast reconstruction after cancer surgery
• Corrective surgery for asymmetrical breasts
• Breast reduction surgery
• Pressure ulcers
• Vascular leg ulcers
• Burn ulcers
• Areas of the body without skin requiring treatment
• Bloody areas