Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - UNC School of Medicine
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Pediatric Plastic and Craniofacial Surgery
A pediatric plastic surgeon has completed the requirements of residency training for board certification in plastic surgery and has additional training in pediatric plastic surgery. Appropriate referrals include:
- Infants and children with congenital malformations of the head and neck structures including the face and skull (eg, cleft lip and palate, craniosynostosis),
- Infants and children with congenital malformations of the limbs (eg, syndactyly)
- Infants, children, and adolescents who are seriously burned or injured should be stablilized at a local hospital and then transferred to a pediatric burn/trauma center with plastic surgery as part of the treatment team,
- Infants, children, and adolescents with large cutaneous pigmented or vascular lesions (eg, nevi, port wine stains, arteriovenous malformations),
- Infants, children, and adolescents with large soft-tissue tumors that, when excised, leave defects requiring tissue transfer or reconstruction.