Face & Ear Workshop

The 3 day face & ear reconstruction workshop

Doctors who have completed the five day skin cancer workshop are invited to return for the advanced three day workshop. This event focuses on face and ear reconstruction following skin cancer excision.

In this program life like plastic models of human heads are used to practice reconstruction techniques in the most realistic scenario available in reconstruction training short of practice on humans themselves.

The advanced weekend concentrates on difficult areas of the body: lip, ear, nose, eyelid, and cheek. 15 reconstructions are explained, demonstrated and then practised on the plastic model.

The program includes 6 sessions of 2.5 hours and 3 sessions of 1 hour.

Enrolment costs include purchase of the lifelike human head model used to effect all procedures over the course.

Day 1

7:45

Registration / coffee

8:00 – 10:30

Welcome Introduction

Wedge excision of lip - LIP - LOWER

Wedge excision of ear - EAR - LEFT

Morning Tea
10:30 – 11:00

11:00 – 13:30

Wedge excision of eyelid - EYE - RIGHT

Banner transposition on the ear - EAR - RIGHT

Lunch
13:30 - 15:00

15:00 – 16:00

Lateral low nose bilobed flap repair - NOSE  - RIGHT

Day 2

7:45

Registration / coffee

8:00 – 10:30

Helical advancement on ear - EAR - RIGHT

Harry Potter flap - FOREHEAD - LEFT

Morning Tea
10:30 – 11:00

11:00 – 13:30

Skin graft from upper eyelid to lower eyelid - EYE - LEFT

Bilobed flap on cheek - CHEEK - RIGHT

Lunch
13:30 – 15:00

15:00 - 16:00

Two defects  - one closure - NECK - RIGHT
Day 3

7:45

Registration / coffee

8:00 - 10:30

Large medial cheek rotation flap - CHEEK - LEFT

The "TOT" flap - FOREHEAD - RIGHT

11:00 - 13:30

Full thickness skin graft to nasal alar - NOSE - LEFT

Upper lip V - Y island advancement - LIP - UPPER

Lunch
13:30 - 15:00

15:00 - 16:00

Closing a defect that is partly on cheek and partly on nose – NOSE - LEFT

Closure of workshop

When available, Dr. Alex Nirenberg may contribute to this program.

Below is a picture of the life like human manikins used in this program. All the procedures are undertaken on your manikin.

Prof Anthony Dixon

Professor Dixon and Dr Nirenberg

Dr Nirenberg leads our education of dermatopathology, including the correlations between pathology and dermoscopy of skin lesions.

Professor Dixon leads our education of skin lesion dermatology, skin surgery and dermoscopy. All the practical sessions with skin models is overseen by Professor Dixon

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Dr. Nirenberg