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Craniofacial Center
Jeffrey A. Ascherman, MD
Chief, Plastic SurgeryDirector, Craniofacial Center
Each year in the United States, thousands of infants are born with cleft lip, cleft palate and other complex facial deformities. Trauma and facial tumors also result in significant facial disfigurement in children. Without the right treatment, babies with birth anomalies or young children whose faces are damaged by disease or injury are likely to grow up feeling rejected and isolated by the indignities they often suffer because of their appearance. Fortunately, many of these children can achieve a happy life. Treatment for disfiguration among children has been increasingly successful in recent decades and is still being advanced. The Craniofacial Center of NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital holds a leadership position in helping children and their families to achieve a better future though a fully integrated, collaborative interdisciplinary program.
Many specialists are needed to provide the expert consultation and skillful care required to diminish the problems of craniofacial disfiguration. Timing of such care is critical to a successful outcome but, unfortunately, it is usually the child's parents or pediatrician who are left to struggle with coordinating the many steps in managing treatment. The Craniofacial Center solves this problem by providing comprehensive specialty consultation and care for children with deformities. Treatments plans are formulated on a long-term basis for children with craniofacial deformities. Center specialists meet and work together regularly to review the complex treatment plans that make an active and productive life possible for their young patients. Management plans are developed with active participation from patients' families to help them understand the options available for their child and to impart confidence in their choice of treatment.
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