Pediatric Plastic Surgery

Pediatric Plastic Surgery at CoxHealth

CoxHealth proudly offers the best in pediatric plastic surgery by the first fellowship-trained pediatric plastic and craniofacial surgeon in Springfield. Hannah Bergman, MD, brings world-class plastic surgery for craniofacial birth anomalies to kids in the Ozarks. These state-of-the-art services are available close to home at the Center for Plastic Surgery.

Cleft and Craniofacial Reconstruction

• Craniosynostosis, syndromic and nonsyndromic - severe head shape deformity, which can limit the brain’s growth
• Plagiocephaly - flattening of the skull, caused by things like crowding in the womb, breech birth or excess time spent on the back
• Facial clefts, including cleft lip and palate, and resulting speech disorders
• Micrognathia and retrognathia
• Cutis aplasia - lack of skin, soft tissue or bone
• Other craniofacial anomalies

Hemangioma and Vascular Malformations

• Hemangiomas - noncancerous birthmark made of extra blood vessels in the skin
• Capillary malformations - small, dilated blood vessels in the skin that grow larger and darker as the child ages, causing a flat, red-pink discoloration
• Venous malformations - caused by veins that stretch or enlarge over time
• Arteriovenous malformations - a tangle of blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, which disrupts normal blood flow and oxygen circulation
• Lymphatic malformations - lymph vessels that clump together in a mass of growing, benign cysts
• PIK3CA-related syndromes, such as PROS disorders and CLOVES syndrome - genetic disorders caused by mutations in the PIK3CA gene that lead to the overgrowth of body parts

General Pediatric Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeries

• Congenital hand anomalies, such as syndactyly (webbing of fingers), pre- and post-axial polydactyly (having an extra finger) and ganglion cysts
• Congenital skin anomalies, like giant or atypical nevi (large, noncancerous mole irregular in shape with undefined borders), capillary staining, dermoid cysts (benign growths of tissue under the skin), pilomatricoma (slow growing, usually noncancerous skin tumor of a hair follicle) and more
• Microtia (small or malformed ear), cryptotia (partial burying of ear cartilage beneath the skin), traumatic ear reconstructions, Stahl’s ear and prominent ear
• Massive weight loss, including body contouring and excess skin resection
• Scar revision
• Burn reconstruction, scar release and skin grafting
• Craniofacial trauma, including fractures and lacerations
• Pressure ulcer reconstruction

Pediatric Breast Surgeries

• Congenital and pediatric breast reconstruction, such as Poland syndrome (missing or underdeveloped muscles or breast tissue), macromastia (abnormal breast tissue enlargement), hypomastia (breasts that remain small after puberty) and asymmetry
• Gender and identity confirmation
• Gynecomastia - increase in breast tissue in males, which can be painful