Feeling good is more than just physical. Your appearance, the look and feel of your skin all have an impact on your mental and emotional well-being. 

Cosmetic reconstruction can help heal your body and your sense of self following illness or injury. 

Breast reconstruction

Whether or not to undergo breast reconstruction following cancer surgery is a personal and sensitive decision. Some breast cancer patients choose to undergo breast reconstruction during their mastectomy surgery, while others wait and do it in stages later on. Both choices are perfectly normal — go with what makes you comfortable. 

DIEP free flap reconstruction

This procedure helps reconstruct your breast following a mastectomy by taking blood vessels, skin and fat from your lower abdomen and transferring them to your chest. A small incision will be made in your abdominal muscle to access the deep inferior epigastric perforators (DIEP) along with the skin and tissue that will be used to reconstruct your breast. 

Implant reconstruction

If you’d like to have your breast reconstructed at the same time as your mastectomy surgery, we will put the breast implant under your chest muscle after your surgeon has removed the breast tissue.

If you need to have a large amount of skin removed during your mastectomy or if you’ve decided to hold off on reconstruction, we will place a tissue expander between your skin and chest muscle to make room for a breast  implant when you are ready. 

Latissimus dorsi flap reconstruction

This breast reconstruction procedure uses muscle located just below your shoulder, called the latissimus dorsi. This is the muscle you use when making a twisting motion such as swinging a tennis racquet.

We will take an oval flap of skin, fat, muscle and blood vessels from this area on your upper back and place it on your chest to rebuild your breast.  

Nipple areola complex reconstruction

Nipple reconstruction is a highly sensitive consideration while rebuilding your breast. We will make a small incision at the new site of your nipple and shape the skin. We use skin from the breast to create the nipple shape whenever possible, or we graft skin from your inner thigh or labia. 

Your new nipple and surrounding areola can be realistically tattooed about three months after this surgery.  

Oncoplastic breast reconstruction

This breast cancer surgery removes the cancerous tissue while reducing your overall breast size at the same time. This may decrease your risk for local recurrence of the cancer since you are removing a larger portion of your breast tissue, and alleviates back, neck and shoulder pain caused by larger breasts.

Body and facial reconstruction

Healing takes many forms. We can help by correcting damage to your face or body caused by cancer, trauma, burns, injuries or illness.

Fat grafting

Rejuvenate flat or sunken areas on your body with a fat grafting procedure, which takes fat from one area of your body and injects it into a new area. Fat grafting is often used to enhance the buttocks, hands, feet, face and breasts. 

Fat grafting happens in three steps:

• Extracting the fat through liposuction
• Processing the removed fat through a purification process
• Injecting the fat into a new area on your body

Mohs surgery

Skin cancer can occur anywhere on your body. The Skin Cancer Foundation calls Mohs surgery the “most effective technique for treating common skin cancers.” Mohs surgery has a 99 percent cure rate for squamous and basal cell carcinomas that have never been treated and 94 percent for skin cancer recurrence in the same area.

We will remove your skin cancer and examine it under a microscope. If any cancer cells remain, another layer of skin tissue will be removed until no cancer cells are left. We make the smallest incision possible to reduce scarring. 

Facial reconstruction

Facial reconstruction surgery is performed to completely change or correct your appearance. While you can request a cosmetic reconstruction, most of these surgeries are performed for medical reasons, including:

• Cleft palate or lip
• Birth defects
• Facial trauma
• Facial paralysis
• Burns
• Cancer surgery scars

Facial fracture repair

When you’ve had trauma to your face — a car accident, sports injuries or a fall — repairing the bones and restoring your facial structure can alleviate pain and help you feel more like yourself again. Our facial fracture restoration typically targets the nose, cheekbones, upper and lower jaws and the area around your eyes.

Facial skin cancer reconstruction

While the damage caused by some skin cancer treatments can never be completely erased, reconstruction of the skin on your face can help restore your sense of self when you look in a mirror.

Reconstruction may take more than one procedure to minimize scarring and allow for healing. We also address not just your appearance but also how your face functions to make sure you retain as much expression as possible.