The Department of Plastic Surgery runs specialized clinics in each field including a breast reconstruction clinic, mammoplasty clinic, microtia clinic, craniofacial clinic, facial nerve palsy clinic, malignant melanoma clinic, lower limb reconstruction clinic, vascular malformation clinic, and laser clinic. We provide specialized treatment for our clients through these centers, and make efforts to satisfy the ever-growing and diversifying needs in the field of reconstructive and aesthetic surgery.

The Breast Reconstruction Clinic at the Samsung Medical Center performs over 400 cases/year of individualized breast reconstruction for patients who undergo mastectomy for breast cancer through a multi-disciplinary collaborative approach with the Departments of Breast Surgery, Hematology and Oncology, Radiation Oncology, Radiology, and Pathology, as various methods of breast reconstruction have become possible using autologous tissue or implants. In our department we provide world-class treatment by performing breast reconstruction using safe and aesthetic breast implants and deep inferior epigastric artery perforator free flaps, in which we do not have to sacrifice abdominal muscles and use only the abdominal skin and fat.
We also have Korea’s biggest congenital malformation and ear deformity clinic, where we perform over 120 cases/year of ear reconstruction for patients with microtia and acquired ear deformities.
We perform over 150 cases/year of reconstructive surgery using free flaps for defects and deformities of the breast-torso, foot-lower extremity, and head and neck. Technically demanding one-stage reanimation surgery for facial nerve paralysis patients using latissimus dorsi muscle is popularly performed in our department.
We also actively participate in the Malignant Melanoma Clinic to provide multi-disciplinary collaborative treatment. We safely excise malignant melanomas and perform reconstruction while conserving limbs without amputation to improve the post-operative quality of life of patients, and run the Malignant Melanoma Clinic, which is the biggest in the nation, through collaboration with the Departments of Dermatology, Radiology, Hematology and Oncology, Radiation oncology, and Pathology.
The Department of Plastic Surgery at the Samsung Medical Center makes efforts to break the boundaries of simple medical care and moves closer to our clients through social volunteering. We have performed more than 1,900 cases of surgery and procedures for around 700 pediatric patients to give new hope to children who are suffering from congenital malformations or acquired deformities of the face and ear since 2004.

In the Department of Plastic Surgery, we are doing active research and performing evidence-based reconstructive treatment in: breast reconstruction using deep inferior epigastric artery perforator free flaps, breast reconstruction using latissimus dorsi muscle sparing musculocutaneous flaps and implants, auricular reconstruction using autologous rib cartilage followed by rib chondroplasty using allogenic cartilage, breast reconstruction using allogenic dermis (acellular dermal matrix) and implants, and safe excision of malignant melanomas while preserving the finger or toe with reconstruction using superficial circumflex iliac artery perforator free flap from the groin, latissimus dorsi muscle one-stage neuromuscular transfer for facial paralysis treatment.