In this Leveling Up episode of the PRS Global Open Deep Cuts Podcast, Dr. Cenk Demirdover talked about his training in Turkey and his path into plastic surgery, his approach to resident training, how he does an augmentation mastopexy, his technique for breast augmentation under local anesthesia, the use of the appropriately named Demirdover flaps for sacral reconstruction, a new approach to alveolar bone grafting in cleft palate patients, and the importance of treating patients like you would like to be treated yourself.
Read a recent "PRS Global Open" article by Dr. Demirdover and co-authors, "Layered Repair in Extensive Sacral Defects with Bilaminar Gluteal Flaps: Demirdover Flaps": https://bit.ly/DemirdoverFlaps
Dr. Cenk Demirdover is a plastic surgeon in private practice in Izmir, Turkey. He completed medical school at Ege University, followed by plastic surgery training at Dokuz Eylul University. He worked as a faculty member at the Dokuz Eylul University until his retirement in 2023, and returned to private practice. He is the past president of the European Board of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, past president of the Turkish Society of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons, the current secretary general of the European Society of Plastic Reconstruction and Aesthetic Surgery, and the president of the Platform of the Turkic World of Plastic Surgery. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Turkish Journal of Plastic surgery, and a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Plastic Surgery and the Journal of Wound Care.
Dr. Demirdover has no conflicts of interest with products or companies mentioned in the episode.
Your host, Dr. Puru Nagarkar, is a board-certified plastic and hand surgeon, and Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
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