Wellstar Plastic Surgery
Plastic surgery improves a person’s restored appearance and improves function through the reconstruction of facial and body tissue due to illness, trauma or congenital abnormalities.
Understanding Plastic Surgery
Plastic surgery is the broad term that includes cosmetic surgery and reconstructive surgery. Cosmetic surgery reshapes the body to improve the patient's appearance and self-esteem. Reconstructive surgery is performed to reshape abnormalities caused by congenital defects, developmental abnormalities, trauma, infection or disease.
Surgeons in the Wellstar Surgery Network perform both cosmetic and reconstructive surgeries to treat various conditions. The American Board of Plastic Surgery also recognizes several sub-specialty areas including: burn, craniofacial, hand, micro, and pediatric plastic surgery.
Wellstar’s plastic surgeons have extensive training and experience reconstructing deformities of the face and body. These surgical experts help patients who have experienced trauma, burns, disfiguring disease or have birth disorders that caused defects.
Plastic surgeries typically fall into four general categories: body, breast, face, and skin. Some common procedures include:
- Abdominoplasty—reshaping and firming the abdomen
- Buttock augmentation or lift—enhancing and/or tightening of the buttocks
- Liposuction—removal of fat deposits using a suction technique to remove fat from specific areas, such as the abdomen, hips and buttocks
- Mastectomy—surgical removal of one or both breasts, usually to treat or prevent cancer
- Breast reconstruction—reshaping or enhancing the breasts, often to return the breasts to normal size and shape following a mastectomy
- Breast augmentation—enhancing the breasts, or lifting and reshaping the breasts
- Reduction mammoplasty—reducing the size of the breasts and removing skin, often to reduce back and shoulder pain
- Blepharoplasty—reshaping of the eyelids
- Rhinoplasty—reshaping of the nose
- Otoplasty—reshaping of the ear, often accomplished by pinning the protruding ear closer to the head
- Browplasty—elevating the eyebrows and smoothing skin on the forehead
- Chin augmentation—enhancing or reshaping the chin, often by using a silicone implant
- Chemical peel—minimizing the appearance of scars, wrinkles or acne through the use of various chemicals
- Laser resurfacing—treating skin conditions and/or removing wrinkles by using intense pulsed light
- Skin grafting—transplanting healthy skin to treat skin that has been damaged by traumatic injury, burns, infections or cancer
Conditions typically treated
- Bite discrepancies (overbite, underbite, cross bite)
- Burn
- Breast cancer
- Carpal tunnel
- Cleft lip and palate
- Congenital defects
- Congenital nevi
- Complex wounds
- Craniosynostosis
- Deformity
- Deviated septum
- Dupuytren's contracture
- Facial imbalances (asymmetry, upper/lower jaw under-development, lower jaw excess, chin deficiencies)
- Facial trauma
- Gender confirmation
- Limb trauma
- Lymphedema
- Migraine
- Nerve injury
- Rheumatoid arthritis affecting the hand
- Scars
- Skin cancer
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
AU Health offers both cosmetic and reconstructive surgery to patients at our downtown location. If you would like to set up a consultation, call us today!
706-721-2198
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Cosmetic and reconstructive surgery can enhance appearance and improve functionality - changing patients' lives and boosting self-esteem. Augusta University Health offers a full range of services to help you look and feel your best.
Why Choose Us
When you're considering plastic surgery - whether it's cosmetic or reconstructive - you want a team who will sit down with you to review the best surgical options for your needs. AU Health offers procedures to adult and pediatric patients looking for comprehensive corrective or augmentative plastic surgery.
Patients come to AU Health because we offer:
- Plastic surgery expertise: We have the largest team of board-certified cosmetic and reconstructive surgery specialists in the Augusta River Region.
- Multidisciplinary care: We collaborate with otolaryngology, neurosurgery, oncology, oral maxillofacial surgery, ophthalmology, orthodontics, and other specialties.
- Microsurgery: We have surgeons trained in microsurgery - using tools that can perform highly delicate, very complex surgical procedures down to the millimeter, to restore form and function.
- Pediatric plastic surgery: If your child needs plastic surgery, our surgeons have fellowship-training in pediatric plastic surgery and cleft/craniofacial surgery.
- Cancer reconstruction surgery: We work seamlessly with Georgia Cancer Center to provide surgical removal and reconstruction to patients with breast, skin, and other types of cancer.
Cosmetic Surgery
Refresh and rejuvenate your appearance with cosmetic surgery.
AU Health offers a full range of cosmetic procedures carried out by experienced, board-certified plastic surgeons. Our services include:
- Arm and thigh lifts
- Breast augmentation, breast lift, breast asymmetry, or breast reduction.
- Lift procedures for forehead, eyebrow, eyelid, neck, and face.
- Lip augmentation
- Liposuction
- Rhinoplasty
- Skin removal after weight loss.
- Tummy tucks
- Vaginal and labial reconstruction.
Non-invasive procedures
We also have in-office non-invasive procedures that can be accomplished in less than an hour. These include:
- Dermal fillers
- BOTOX® injections
Reconstructive Surgery
Reconstructive surgery repairs damaged tissue and bone due to injury, disease, congenital or acquired defects.
Why do patients need surgical reconstruction?
Reconstruction can help with overall appearance and improvement of function. Reconstructive surgery is done to correct damage from:
- Birth defects
- Cancer/tumors
- Developmental abnormalities
- Infection or disease
- Trauma injuries
What procedures are performed at AU Health?
We offer many different procedures to patients seeking reconstructive surgery. Our surgeons see patients for:
- Cleft lip/palate and other craniofacial malformation.
- Breast reconstruction/reduction
- Digital and limb reattachment
- Distraction osteogenesis (gradual bone lengthening)
- Ear surgery
- Flap surgery, such as free flaps (including breast).
- Hand surgery
- Maxillofacial trauma
- Skin cancer
- Scar revision
- Tissue expansion
- Trauma repairs
- Vaginal reconstruction
- Weight loss, to remove excess skin.
- Complex reconstructive procedures for wounds that won't heal.
Locations
Augusta University Medical Office Building
1447 Harper Street
Augusta, GA 30912
Georgia Cancer Center
1411 Laney Walker Blvd.
Augusta, GA 30912