Practice News and Events
The chance of a woman having invasive breast cancer sometime during her life is about one in eight. Many breast cancer patients will consult with a plastic surgeon during their treatment for reconstruction of their breast or breasts, or to repair deformities caused by a lumpectomy operation.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. PSP discussed advances in breast reconstructive techniques with board-certified plastic surgeon Laurence T. Glickman, MD, FACS, MSc, FRCS(C), FACS, of the Long Island Plastic Surgical Group, which is located in Garden City, NY.
Two of the LIPSG recent residents partner up and move out to Beverly Hills, CA to start a private practice together. Learn about their experience and a new innovative procedure; the Single Incision Mommy Makeover (SIMM).
With more breast cancer patients opting for mastectomies and breast reconstruction, plastic surgeons continue to improve and develop new techniques to rebuild the breasts. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, in 2008 about 79,000 women in the U.S. had reconstruction following breast cancer surgery — nearly 40% more than in 2007. Yet, a shocking 70% of eligible breast cancer patients are not informed of their reconstructive options. Click here to read more
Robert Esposito was riding his bicycle in Brooklyn several years ago when he saw his reflection in a car window. What he saw shocked him.
“Holy cow,” he realized. “I’m losing my hair!” He was 48 at the time and had just retired as a lieutenant in the New York City police department. He had no intention of looking like a retiree.
After seeing an ad for hair-replacement surgeon Dr. Gary Hitzig in a local newspaper, Esposito hightailed it over to the doctor’s Manhattan office. He had his first hair replacement in 1992 and has had 13 more since then, the last one in February. After a face-lift to deal with baggy eyes and a nose job five years ago, Esposito estimates he’s spent $40,000 on cosmetic surgery in the past 12 years… Click here to read more
For two plastic surgeons rebuilding a face destroyed by a bullet runs a distant second to reconstructing a man’s soul damaged by the trauma.
“Our sense of who we are is how we respond when we see each other in the mirror, especially in an adult who’s whole life was built on the sense of identity of who he was.” said Dr. Kaveh Alizadeh of the Long Island Plastic Surgical Group.
CBS 2 first introduced you to Uday in October. The Iraqi-born man worked for the U.S. Military as a translator shortly after the invasion into Baghdad. That upset a Saddam loyalist, who shot him in the face.
The right side of Uday’s face is shattered. There’s a hole where his cheekbone used to beand his eye is gone. His nose is crooked and bloated. Uday nearly lost his life because, he said, he helped U.S. troops in the early days of the Iraq war. Now the Baghdad native is in New York awaiting the second of three operations to rebuild his face. If all goes well, Uday could receive a prosthetic eye when the last surgery is completed early next year. And if Uday’s fondest hopes are realized, his wife and four children will join him in the United States.
“My family wants to see my face after the surgery,” Uday, 47, said. The effort by two Garden City plastic surgeons to repair his broken visage completes a three-year odyssey for Uday, who wins friends with a gentle demeanor in stark contrast to the upheaval in his native land. Because his family remains in Baghdad, where sectarian violence has led to hundreds of deaths in recent weeks, Newsday agreed to withhold Uday’s last name. Click here to read more.
Special Section – Pro Bono Plastic Surgery Teaching to Learn by Kaveh Alizadeh, MD, MSc, FACS, and Thomas Davenport, MD. Click here to read more.
His right eyelid droops over the hole where his eye once was. The skin below is creased with scarsand deeply sunken from the hollow created by his pulverized cheekbones. And flesh from his forehead was used to fill in a chunk of his nose that had been blown off.
The damage to the right side of Uday’s face – caused by gunfire from Saddam Hussein loyalists – has left the Iraqi horribly disfigured.
He was ambushed and shot because he worked as a translator for the U.S. Army in Baghdad, but soon Uday may look close to his old self.
The 47-year-old married father will undergo three reconstructive surgeries performed by two Garden City plastic surgeons. Click here to read more.
ROZ ABRAMS, ANCHOR: An Iraqi man shot in the face for helping the US military inBaghdad is now in America. Doctors in our area are volunteering to reconstruct his face. CBS 2’s Dr. David Marks has details. Click here to read more.
ANCHOR: Two local surgeons have been volunteering their services for fifteen years. This month, they are performing surgery for an Iraqi man who took a bullet for freedom. Click here to read more.
ANCHOR: An Iraqi citizen severely injured while assisting US troops in the War on Terror is in America tonight. He’s only identified to us by his first name, Uday, in order to protect his family still in Iraq. RNN Long Island reporter Carolyn Rowe tells us how local doctors are helping a man they call an American Hero. Click here to read more.
Dr. Kaveh Alizadeh, a plastic surgeon from New York, is here, among the Suni sect of Sufis. He came to Kurdistan to perform cleft lip and palate surgeries. But a Kurdish colleague has brought him to see a secret ritual that Westerners rarely, if ever, are allowed to see. Click here to read more.
NUMC NEWSLETTER – Dr. Simpson is quoted on the second page of this newsletter.