Plastic surgery | NHS Frimley Health Foundation Trust

Plastic surgery is a branch of surgery specialising in repairing and reconstructing missing or damaged tissue and skin. Skin and tissue can be damaged because of illness, injury, other surgery or from an abnormality present from birth.

The aims of plastic surgery are to restore the function of the damaged tissues and skin and to improve the appearance of these areas.

Frimley Health carries out a wide range of plastic surgery, including:

Trauma
- Hand trauma (soft tissue and fractures)
- General soft tissue trauma
- Lower limb trauma (skin cover provision, in conjunction with orthopaedics)
Hand surgery
- Congenital deformity
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Osteoarthritis
- Nerve compressions
- Dupuytren's disease
- Hand tumours
- Wrist pain and instability
- General hand conditions
Skin cancer
- Skin cancer excision
- Skin cancer reconstruction
- Sentinel lymph node biopsy
- Lymph node dissection
- Electrochemotherapy (ECT)
Breast surgery
- Reconstruction after mastectomy or wide local excision defects
- Reconstruction with implants
- Latissimus dorsi flap
- TRAM & DIEP breast reconstruction
- Augmentation (approval required)
- Reduction (approval required)
- Correction of asymmetry (approval required)
Lower limb surgery
- Reconstruction of trauma (with orthopaedics)
- Diabetic feet reconstruction
Microsurgery
- Free tissue transfer for reconstruction of breast and other tissue loss / defect
Paediatric plastic surgery
- Hypospadius
- Congenital hand conditions
- Paediatric plastic trauma
Abdominal wall hernias
- Complex abdominal wall reconstruction service offered through our MDT in conjunction with general surgery
Micropigmentation
- Specialist procedure for areolar tattooing and camouflage makeup