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consulting rooms, six post anaesthet-
ic care beds, and a second-stage re-
covery area. As such, the centre offers
a wide range of specialist services in
many surgical services including or-
thopaedics, ophthalmology, gener-
al surgery, oral maxillofacial surgery
skin lesion removal (including mela-
noma) and gastroenterology. In total,
the centre has the services of 20 Sur-
gical Specialists with a lot of flexibility
for part-time staff who wish to balance
their work and home lives.
Innovating in medicine
Aside from traditional treatments, the
centre is also highly innovative in some
areas of medicine. Mr. David Crabb, for
instance, one of the centre’s plastic
surgeons, trained under Dr. Roger K.
Khouri who has developed a minimal-
ly invasive breast reconstruction pro-
cedure called Brava + Autologous Fat
Transfer (AFT). The procedure involves
wearing the specialized, gel-like Brava
bar to expand the skin from the outside
and create a so-called breast mound
which includes the expansion of tis-
sues, blood vessels, and nerves. After
a few weeks, fat is transferred to the
area from other parts of the body and
the new breasts settle in naturally over
the next three months. The breasts
look and feel natural even though they
only contain the transferred fat and no
breast tissue. Fat grafting can be per-
formed without the use of the Brava