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

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