Pediatric Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery

Reconstructive plastic surgery helps to address or correct a physical abnormality or injury that interferes with your child’s life. The plastic surgeons at Riley Children’s Health are well known for their expertise in treating many conditions through our specialized programs:

• Corneal Neurotization Program. Ours is one of the few programs in the nation—and the first in Indiana—to perform corneal neurotization surgery to treat neurotrophic keratopathy. In this surgery, plastic surgeons and ophthalmologists transfer nerves into children’s corneas to treat this condition and reverse or prevent blindness.
• Cleft and Craniofacial Program. Ours was one of the first programs of its kind established in the United States and it remains the largest cleft and craniofacial care team in Indiana. This comprehensive, multidisciplinary team is dedicated to treating children with facial differences, such as cleft lip and cleft palate, craniosynostosis and microtia.
• Burn Program. Riley Children’s has the only pediatric burn center in Indiana certified by the American Burn Association. It’s also one of the few centers in the nation to use spray-on skin burn coverage technology, which provides faster healing and less pain, infection risk and scarring. Our multi-specialty teams offer your child personalized treatment for their burns.
• Adolescent Breast and Chest Program. Our expert plastic surgeons offer care for adolescents with very large breasts (macromastia), with breasts of very different sizes (breast asymmetry) and with excess breast growth in boys (gynecomastia).
• Facial Paralysis Program. Riley Children’s is a global destination for facial reanimation surgery. Whether your child was born with facial paralysis or they lost movement in their face after a brain tumor or head injury, our specialists deliver leading-edge treatment for all forms of congenital and developmental facial paralysis.
• Hand Program. We provide surgery and treatment options for all types of hand conditions, whether your child is born with a hand disorder or experiences a traumatic injury to their hand.
• Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injuries Program. Our multidisciplinary care teams provide total care for injuries to the brachial plexus, which is the network of nerves that control arm and hand movement. We offer nerve surgery, rehabilitation and joint and tendon rebalancing.

At Riley Children’s, your child is cared for by a highly skilled team of board-certified doctors who are specially trained in pediatric plastic surgery. The care team also includes anesthesiologists, who ensure your child’s safety and comfort during surgery and manage their pain after surgery. Specially trained nurses care for your child before, during and after surgery and recovery.