Pediatric Plastic Surgery at St. Louis Children’s Hospital provides kid-focused plastic surgery for a wide variety of conditions children and adolescents are born with (congenital) or develop as they grow.
We offer reconstructive surgery to correct issues or concerns that affect your child’s quality of life — whether physically, mentally or emotionally.
Conditions Treated with Plastic Surgery
- Bell’s Palsy
- Blood vessel malformations, including malformations that affect the arteries, veins and the lymphatic system
- Brachial plexus palsy, including as a result of birth-related brachial plexus injury or brachial plexus injury from trauma (such as a car accident)
- Breast anomalies, such as breast asymmetry, underdevelopment and massive overgrowth in girls or gynecomastia (overgrowth) in boys
- Burns that require reconstructive surgery to correct severe scarring
- Cleft lip and cleft palate
- Craniosynostosis, including coronal synostosis, lambdoid synostosis, metopic synostosis and sagittal synostosis
- Ear issues, including ones your child is born with (congenital) or develops, such as constricted ear, prominent ears, Stahl’s ear, cryptotia, microtia
- Encephaloceles
- Facial concerns, including feeling dissatisfied with the way your nose, ears or lips look
- Facial fractures, such as a broken nose, jaw or bones around the eyes from car accidents, sports-related injuries or other traumatic events
- Facial paralysis, including conditions your child was born with or develops due to trauma, infection or other causes of facial paralysis (such as Guillain-Barré syndrome)
- Hand issues requiring hand surgery, including those your child was born with, such as syndactyly, missing digits, extra digits (polydactyly), or develops, such as repair of tendons, nerves or fractures
- Hemifacial microsomia
- Jaw malformations, including those resulting from cleft lip and cleft palate, hemifacial microsomia, Apert syndrome, Pfeiffer syndrome, Pierre Robin sequence, Treacher Collins syndrome or Saethre-Chotzen syndrome
- Keloids and other scars
- Major skin and/or soft tissue defects (e.g., due to scars)
- Midfacial hypoplasia (undergrowth), which can lead to sleep apnea
- Möbius syndrome
- Nose concerns, including ones your child is born with or develops, that can be addressed with rhinoplasty or other reconstructive surgery
- Peripheral nerve injuries
- Plagiocephaly, also known as flat head syndrome, including deformational plagiocephaly and posterior plagiocephaly
- Skin issues, including skin lesions, pigmented nevi (moles), hemangiomas (congenital and infantile), and lymphangiomas
- Tumors of the skin or underlying soft tissues, such as cysts, cancerous growths, lipoma or neurofibroma (e.g., as found in neurofibromatosis)
