Treatment & Surgery for Birth Defects
In the treatment of many “Birth defects” or “Birth anomalies”, a senior cosmetic surgeon has a special role. He/ She may greatly help improve the cosmetic and functional aspects related to these defects.
* Cleft lip, cleft palate, and rare facial clefts are a group of defects that may improve significantly, under the care of a senior cosmetic surgeon. Surgery can be offered even for secondary scars of treatment. Cleft lip nose may require special attention.
* Joined toes, joined fingers, bent fingers, extra fingers or toes and other hand and foot anomalies may be addressed by a senior cosmetic plastic surgeon.
*Hypospadias (Abnormal urine opening), intersex, indeterminate sex, and related issues may be addressed by a senior cosmetic surgeon
* Ear deformities: Absence of ear, prominent ear, bat ear, folded ear, absent lobule, small ear, large ear, pre-auricular tags, and many other ear-related issues may be attended to by a senior cosmetic surgeon. At times more than one stages of surgery are required. Ear lobule reconstruction and repair may be needed. A stuck ear lobe is one condition where the ear lobule looks weird. It may be corrected too.
* Pigmented lesions: Birthmarks, pigmented nevi, moles, angiomas, prominent veins, cafe au lait spots, neurofibromas and similar lesions can improve with lasers or surgery.
* Craniofacial clefts: May be dealt with by a plastic surgeon alone or with other specialties. Results may be moderate to good depending upon the magnitude of the defect and availability of tissues.
* Many other birth defects may be addressed independently or in unison with other specialists by a senior plastic surgeon.
