La chirurgie plastique de l'enfant

Paediatric plastic surgery is a complex surgery. The management of traumatized or malformed children needs a lot of contributors: the paediatric plastic surgeon is often the “conductor” of a large team. Paediatric plastic surgery is a very nice but fragile speciality. This surgery needs a long experience, a large recruitment and a rigorous training. Good university education is necessary to know techniques and children's pathologies. An international recruitment is necessary for these rare pathologies. Surgical training is also important with a good training in microsurgery and minimally invasive surgery. The management of children needs to know physiologic particularities, specific pathologies, cicatrisation particularities and especially the outcome of growth and psychomotor development. Some French surgeons are references in the world for surgery of hand abnormalities, ear reconstruction or skin expansion. They changed techniques and indications to improve each day the live of children with abnormalities. Interviews of these surgeons are very useful to understand and improve the French creativity.