The American Society of Plastic Surgeons is pleased to launch a new public education effort this month—Reconstructing Lives—highlighting state-of-the-art reconstructive procedures through compelling stories of unique patient experiences.
The profound differences in patients' appearances and lives, as well as the extraordinary efforts of plastic surgeons to care for their patients, is inspiring.
Every year, more than 5 million reconstructive plastic surgery procedures are performed in the United States. Many of them are life-changing for patients and for the surgeons themselves.
Geraldine Rivero
Imagine: throughout your whole life you have been told, "Oh, what a pretty face,"—and then, in a split-second, a bizarre accident puts that face, and your life, at risk.
This is not a set up for a Grey’s Anatomy script. It’s a chapter from Geraldine Rivero’s life story.
Rivero slipped in the bathroom and a prong on a stainless-steel rack on the back of the door pierced the orbital rim under her right eye and lodged in her sinus cavity.
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