### Overview of the Department of Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery, Nanfang Hospital The Department of Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, also known as the Southern Plastic and Cosmetic Laser Medical Center, is one of the earliest established and renowned plastic surgery specialties in South China. It serves as the Burn and Plastic Surgery Center of the People's Liberation Army, a doctoral degree authorization point under the State Education Commission, and a key discipline of Nanfang Hospital, with its professional level ranking among the top nationwide. ### Strong Technical Expertise The department currently has 38 staff members, including 12 physicians (11 with doctoral degrees, 2 from overseas), and 7 physicians who have studied abroad in Japan, Switzerland, the United States, etc., for 1 to 6 years. Additionally, 4 physicians are employed on a part-time basis. The faculty includes 2 professors and doctoral supervisors, 5 associate professors, and 6 lecturers. ### Elegant Medical Environment The department comprises both inpatient and outpatient sections. The inpatient ward is designed as a hotel-style ward built to high international standards, with a total of 36 beds. Each room is equipped with a television, telephone, private restroom, and bathroom, and offers single suites and double suites. The outpatient section includes expert consultation rooms, laser treatment rooms, liposuction and weight loss rooms, medical aesthetics rooms, hair transplant rooms, body contouring rooms, and an operating room capable of performing 10 surgeries simultaneously. ### Advanced Technical Equipment The department is equipped with state-of-the-art laser therapy devices, liposuction and surgical equipment, such as the CB Erbium YAG Laser for wrinkle removal, the Epi-Care Hair Removal Laser system, the Medlite 4-wavelength skin rejuvenation laser, the Vebeam vascular laser, the Smooth Beam wrinkle removal device, the SILBERG external ultrasound emulsification system, the HERCULES™ liposuction machine, and the 3M micro-powered pneumatic bone contouring surgical system. The total value of the equipment amounts to 18 million RMB. ### Distinctive Professional Features #### Medical Specialties 1. **Reconstruction of Facial and Body Surface Organs**: Such as ear, nose, lip, breast, finger, penis, and vaginal reconstruction. 2. **Correction and Repair of Deformities and Defects**: Including cleft lip and palate, hypospadias, vaginal atresia, elephantiasis, pressure ulcers, chronic ulcers, and burn and trauma scars. 3. **Cosmetic Surgery**: Such as blepharoplasty (double eyelid surgery), lower eyelid bag removal, rhinoplasty, otoplasty for protruding ears, facial bone contouring, breast augmentation, reduction mammoplasty, breast reconstruction, and external ultrasound-assisted liposuction. 4. **Laser Therapy**: Using advanced laser devices to treat moles, acne, scars, hemangiomas, age spots, warts, and various skin lesions, as well as effective hair removal and wrinkle reduction. #### Technical Advantages 1. **Narrow-Pedicled Perforator-Based Subdermal Vascular Network Flap for Defect and Deformity Repair**: A specialized technique co-developed with Nippon Medical School, capable of repairing large-area skin and soft tissue defects and deformities in critical areas such as the face and hands while preserving both appearance and function. 2. **Anterolateral Thigh Flap for Defect and Deformity Repair**: Developed and applied by the department in 1984, this technique is widely used by domestic and international peers for repairing deformities and defects in the head, face, limbs, trunk, and other body parts, earning the reputation of a "universal flap." ### Outstanding Academic Achievements Since its establishment, the department has been a pioneer in China in the anatomical research and clinical application of microsurgical flap transplantation and toe transplantation. It has also made significant breakthroughs in perforator-based subdermal vascular network flaps. The department has received one second-class National Science and Technology Progress Award, one first-class Military Science and Technology Progress Award (in collaboration), two second-class Military Medical Achievement Awards, two second-class Provincial Science and Technology Progress Awards, and 14 other awards. In recent years, the department has developed distinctive research focuses on gene regulation of scars and computer-assisted three-dimensional breast morphology measurement. It has received funding from 4 National Natural Science Foundation projects and 11 provincial and ministerial-level foundation projects. In 2001, the department became the Burn and Plastic Surgery Center of the People's Liberation Army and a doctoral degree authorization point for plastic surgery under the State Education Commission. It has trained 22 doctoral students and nearly 52 master's students. Many of the department's experts and professors hold positions in national and provincial-level professional societies, such as standing committee members of the Chinese Medical Association's Plastic Surgery Branch, standing committee members of the Chinese Rehabilitation Medicine Association's Repair and Reconstruction Surgery Branch, chairperson of the Guangdong Medical Association's Plastic Surgery Branch, vice chairperson of the Guangdong Repair and Reconstruction Surgery Branch, and standing committee members of the Guangdong Microsurgery Society. ### High Academic Status and Broad Influence 1. **Academic Appointments**: Vice chairperson of the National Plastic Surgery Society, vice president of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association's Cosmetic and Plastic Surgery Branch, chairperson of the Guangdong Plastic Surgery Society, council member of the Guangdong Medical Association, standing committee member of the National Repair and Reconstruction Surgery Society, vice chairperson of the Guangdong Repair and Reconstruction Surgery Society, vice president of the Guangdong Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery Association, standing committee member of the Guangdong Microsurgery Society, visiting professor at Nippon Medical School, deputy editor-in-chief of the Chinese Journal of Plastic Surgery, and editorial board member of nearly 20 journals, including the Chinese Journal of Aesthetic Medicine, Chinese Journal of Practical Medicine, Chinese Journal of Repair and Reconstruction Surgery, Chinese Journal of Aesthetic Medicine, Chinese Journal of Practical Aesthetic Surgery, Journal of Military Medical University (English edition), and Journal of General Medicine. Additionally, members serve as evaluation committee members for the Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award, the Chinese Medical Youth Award, and expert database members for the National and Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation, as well as the Military Medical and Health Evaluation Expert Database and the PLA Clinical Medicine Expert Database. 2. **International Collaboration**: Professor Yasushi Hyakusoku, head of the Plastic Surgery Department at Nippon Medical School, has been appointed as a visiting professor. The department has established long-term academic exchange and collaboration relationships with Nippon Medical School and the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. ### Influence The Department of Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery at Nanfang Hospital serves as a training base for plastic and cosmetic surgery in South China and a specialized physician training base under the Ministry of Health. Over the years, it has trained visiting scholars from more than 20 provinces and cities, including Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Chongqing, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangxi, and Hainan. Industry insiders often refer to the Southern Plastic Surgery Hospital as the "Whampoa Military Academy" of Guangdong's plastic surgery industry, as many current heads of plastic surgery departments in various hospitals previously worked or trained at Nanfang Hospital. The department has trained 74 graduate students, including 52 master's students and 22 doctoral students. These graduate students have published 78 papers, with significant breakthroughs and innovations in areas such as gene diagnosis and treatment of keloid fibroblasts and three-dimensional measurement and simulation design for breast plastic surgery. Among them, two graduate students received the first-class Nanyue Outstanding Graduate Student Award, and two received the second-class Academician Scholarship Award.