What this specialty covers.

Plastic and reconstructive surgery aims to restore a form or function altered by disease, cancer, injury, burns, malformation or major weight loss.

This is not cosmetic surgery: the starting point is a loss, and the aim is reconstruction. It is often done in several operative stages, months apart, and depends closely on what came before — radiotherapy, for instance, changes the options available. The complete previous file is therefore essential before any opinion.

Situations treated

Your situation is not on this list? It is not exhaustive: send your file and a doctor will read it.

Procedures

breast reconstruction
reconstruction after cancer
reconstruction after injury
facial reconstruction
restorative surgery
scar revision
reconstruction after burns
surgery after major weight loss

The technique used depends on your file. It is settled by the doctor at consultation and stated in your proposal before you travel.

Four steps, from your file to your return.

01

Send us your file

First step: understanding your situation

02

Receive your assessment

A proposal suited to your situation

03

We organise your stay

Your stay, shaped around your needs

04

We stay with you until you are home

Support on the ground, and after your stay

What we organise around the medical care.

You take only what you need: nothing is imposed and nothing is sold as a package.

Medical appointments

Consultations, tests and surgery placed in an order that makes sense, with no day lost between two appointments.

Visa support

Letter of medical care and supporting documents, for the nationalities that require them.

Accommodation and transfers

A place to stay near the facility, airport pick-up and travel during your stay.

Travelling companion

We plan for them from the start: accommodation, transfers and presence at consultations.

What patients ask us.

Either at the same time as the mastectomy, or later, once treatment is finished. Radiotherapy weighs heavily on that choice and on the technique used. It is a decision taken with the oncologist as much as with the plastic surgeon.

An implant means a shorter operation but requires good skin quality and replacement in due course. Reconstruction with your own tissue is a heavier procedure and leaves a scar at the donor site, but ages with you. The surgeon sets out both, with their real aftermath.

Rarely just one. Full reconstruction often involves a main stage then refinements — symmetrisation, nipple, scar revision — months apart. The surgeon gives you the whole plan at the first opinion, so you know what you are committing to.

Previous operative reports, the pathology report, details of the treatments received — chemotherapy, radiotherapy, hormone therapy —, recent imaging and photographs of the area concerned.

Have your file read before you decide.

A doctor reviews it and tells you what is possible, what is not and what it involves. With no commitment on your part.

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The information on this page is general and does not replace a consultation. No indication, timescale or outcome can be established without a doctor reading your file.

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