A Hybrid Plastic Surgery Practice

When I tell people I have a hybrid plastic surgery practice, I am not talking about a fuel efficient car. I am talking about the fact that I do both cosmetic surgery and medically-necessary surgery. Part of the medically-necessary surgery includes the repair of pressure wounds (also called decubitus ulcers.)

Not only is this type of surgery not cosmetic, it can be pretty ugly. It is surgery to assist often long standing wounds in healing in often significantly ill patients. If possible such a wound is repaired using tissue from adjoining areas of the body called fasciocutaneous and musculocutaneous flaps after scar and debris is cut away. This isn’t pretty, but the patient was pretty happy to not have an open wound afterward.

I do these at an LTAC in Santa Ana at which good wound care nursing services are available before and after surgery. Not all patients are candidates for surgical correction. Often these patients have had these wounds for months or years at the time they are referred for possible surgery.

Below are images showing an example case I did years ago (those who don’t like pictures of wounds can pass.)

See the photos here.

*This blog post was originally published at Truth in Cosmetic Surgery*


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