Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery and HBOT

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can be beneficial for patients undergoing any type of plastic or reconstructive surgery. It has proven effective in salvaging compromised skin grafts and flaps. Its application post-surgically can range from assisting healing after major reconstructive surgery, or MOHS, to enhancing the healing process and shortening the time to full recovery after elective plastic surgery. HBOT can also be utilized anytime surgery is performed to previously irradiated tissue.

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HBOT can benefit your patients by:

Reducing edema/inflammation
Enhancing oxygen availability to injured tissue
Stimulating angiogenesis
Promoting fibroblast proliferation/collagen synthesis, decreasing fibrosis
Enhancing antibiotic efficacy
Reducing incidence of infection due to the enhancement of leukocyte oxidative killing
Increasing tensile strength of healed tissue
Stimulating stem cell proliferation from bone marrow and migration to the area of injury