In this "Leveling Up" episode of the Award-Winning PRS Global Open Deep Cuts Podcast, Dr. Evan Matros discusses the importance of counseling patients and talking about potential complications, virtual surgical planning for maxillary and mandibular reconstruction with the incorporation of prosthodontics, why the maxilla is more difficult to reconstruct than the mandible, how to design the skin paddle in a maxillary reconstruction, how the type of flap affects his choice of recipient vessels, why both precision and accuracy are critical in boutique facial reconstruction, the importance of teamwork with your ablative surgeon, why he doesn't like "choose your own adventure" books, what he considers to be the fundamentals of good surgical technique, why you should never close a dissecting clamp within the dissection space, the nuances of the parascapular and scapular flaps, and the need for humility in surgery.

Read a recent classic PRS Global Open article by Dr. Matros and co-authors, "Virtual Surgical Planning for Oncologic Mandibular and Maxillary Reconstruction": https://bit.ly/GOXDC_Matros

Evan Matros, MD, MPH, MMSc is a Professor of Plastic Surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and the Program Director of the microsurgery fellowship. He is on the editorial boards of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and PRS Global Open, has been the scientific program chair for the American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery, and is a member of the board of directors of the Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons. He has published widely about microsurgical reconstruction of the head and neck and breast, and is a Plastic Surgery Foundation Visiting Professor for 2023.

Your host, Dr. Puru Nagarkar, is a board-certified plastic and hand surgeon, and Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

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