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Trauma Reconstruction: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery for Traumatic Injuries

Information about Trauma Reconstruction Surgery with Dr. Andrew Jacono in New York, NY.

What Is Facial Trauma (Maxillofacial Trauma)?

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Before and after photo of a young boy with traumatic cleft lip birth defect.

Facial disfigurement can occur in a fraction of a second but cause lifelong emotional and physical scars. Although prompt treatment in the emergency room can be integral to survival, permanent wounds can be unsightly.

A large portion of Dr. Jacono’s practice is dedicated to treating patients who have experienced facial trauma. During the first consultation, he evaluates the thickness, texture, and color of scars before deciding on the best surgical techniques. He then tactfully removes these scars and rebalances facial features with innovative tissue rearrangement.

What Is Trauma Reconstructive Surgery?

Facial reconstructive surgery aims to restore damaged facial areas. Dr. Jacono is a specialist in various types of reconstructive surgery. His examination focuses on a number of things, including functional abnormalities like facial weakness, smiling, or chewing difficulties, and corneal exposure. 

Usually, aesthetic restoration involves removing scars and rebalancing facial features through tissue rearrangement. If the face’s bones have been severely damaged, Dr. Jacono uses three-dimensional computer imaging to guide his process. Using this method, Dr. Jacono can use the patient’s own bodily tissues (e.g., bone, cartilage, and skin) to recreate facial shape and symmetry.

After reconstructive surgery, patients are taught camouflage techniques by a skilled makeup artist. This will help them hide specific blemishes. Dr. Jacono also asks an aesthetician to formulate a blended foundation that matches the patient’s skin tone. This will hide residual scarring.

Both cleft lip and cleft palate deformities cause difficulties with eating, drinking, speaking, and tooth formation. Luckily, these conditions can be treated surgically. Surgery is usually performed when patients are between 6 and 12 months old, as earlier intervention promotes normal development.

Secondary restorative surgery, as well as scar revision, is initiated several weeks to months after injury. After the initial consultation, Dr. Jacono outlines a surgical protocol to restore symmetry and uses the most sophisticated techniques available. Although persistent scars sometimes cannot be avoided, sophisticated laser technology can camouflage and flatten them.

In more extreme cases where trauma has penetrated the facial muscles or severed the facial nerve, microsurgical techniques can restore expression.

Why Do Some People Get Reconstructive Plastic Surgery?

There are many reasons why people undergo plastic surgery. Some wish to tweak parts of their face that they are unhappy with. Others want to look younger or more attractive.

Still, others opt for plastic surgery after experiencing mild or severe facial trauma, which includes:

Facial Scars

Patients who suffer from penetrating facial injuries should be treated by a facial plastic surgeon. For small to moderate scars, surgeons may cut away tissue, thoroughly irrigated with saline solution, and close the wound. In other cases, the surgeon may use a skin graft or flap to smooth the area.

Facial Deformities

Facial deformities are aesthetic and functional defects present at birth. There are many facial abnormalities, but the most common include cleft lip and cleft palate deformities.

A cleft lip is an opening in the upper lip that occurs when facial structures don’t properly develop.

A cleft palate is a fissure in the soft palate that also occurs when certain facial structures don’t connect. Many patients are born with either a cleft lip or a cleft palate, but some are unfortunately born with both.

Both cleft lip and cleft palate deformities cause difficulties with eating, drinking, speaking, and tooth formation. Luckily, these conditions can be treated surgically. Surgery is usually performed when patients are between 6 and 12 months old, as earlier intervention promotes normal development.

Dog Bites

Dog bites account for more than 800,000 emergency room visits per year. Bites are different from other lacerations in that the incidence of infection is 15 times higher. This is because dog saliva contains a combination of viral and bacterial contaminants. Penetrating injuries can even lead to a late infection that presents as fever, redness, and swelling.

Anyone with a dog bite bigger than a scratch should seek medical attention immediately. Initial treatment should include a thorough cleansing, antibiotics, and tetanus prophylaxis. Dog bites should also be reported to the Health Department to ascertain whether the dog has had a rabies vaccine.

Serious facial dog bites should be treated by a plastic surgeon. A repair usually entails cutting away contaminated tissue and irrigating the area with an antibiotic solution. Freshened skin edges are then closed. 40% of all dog bites include torn flesh, which requires the plastic surgeon to replace lost tissue.

What Should Be Expected During Healing?

Recovery after facial reconstruction differs based on the severity of the trauma and the technique used to address it. However, in most cases, it takes 5 to 7 days for swelling to resolve. It also takes 10 to 14 days for bruising to fade.

If the lips have been reconstructed, it may be difficult to eat at first. If the cheeks have been reconstructed, it may be hard to make normal expressions.

Why Choose Dr. Jacono?

Dr. Jacono is a dual board-certified facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon with over 20 years of experience. He has extensive training in all types of trauma reconstruction surgery and delivers the most comprehensive results possible.

To see if you are a candidate for reconstructive surgery with Dr. Jacono, please contact his offices in either Manhattan or on Long Island.

Facial Trauma Before and After Patient Photos


Dog Bite Trauma Before and After – Patient 1:

Dr. Jacono performed lower lip reconstruction following a tramatic dog bite.

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Dog Bite Lip Reconstruction Patient Photo


Keloid Scar Before and After – Patient 2:

This patient has a keloid of the ear from prior ear piercings through the ear cartilage. Correction required removal of the keloid with skin grafting.

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Keloid Scar Removal Patient Photo


Facial Trauma Before and After – Patient 3:

Lower Lip Reconstruction After Dog Bite.

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Dog Bite Lip Reconstruction Patient Photo
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Dog Bite Reconstruction Patient Photo


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Doctor Jacono’s desire to become a facial plastic surgeon was solidified in grade school. There was a girl on his school bus route who was born with a cleft lip and palate deformity. Unfortunately, whenever she spoke, air and words escaped through her nose. Kids teased her and were cruel, and nobody would sit next to her on the bus, so he decided to sit with her. One day, the girl had plastic surgery and returned to school with her face repaired. Suddenly, classmates saw her face instead of her deformity and immediately treated her normally. It was at that moment that Doctor Jacono knew he wanted to fix people’s faces and change their lives. This is why he has gone on over twenty plastic surgery missions to poor countries around the world and provided free cleft lip and surgery for birth defects to over 500 children.

Because of this experience in his childhood, Doctor Jacono understands that one of our basic needs as human beings is to feel confident about our appearance. It’s is Doctor Jacono’s passion to help his patients achieve their facial aesthetic goals, creating natural appearing results to either enhance their beauty and proportion or rejuvenate their aging appearance. He is a world-renowned leader in the field of facial plastic surgery and only performs surgery on the face, not the body. He has innovated many facelift, eyelid lift, and rhinoplasty surgical techniques, publishing in leading peer reviewed literature and lecturing at plastic surgery conferences all over the world. He is committed to sharing what he has learned teaching surgeons from around the world.

His approach is to maintain your uniqueness and facial identity; it is still you just better. To do this he uses a customized, bespoke approach to each patient employing the most minimally invasive, innovative, and cutting-edge technology. Doctor Jacono has never performed the same procedure on any two of the thousands of patients he has treated. He is committed to providing his surgical expertise in a caring, supportive environment with a professional staff that has you as their focus and concern.