Prosthetics can be custom designed to alleviate many anatomical and physiological conditions. Bone loss and soft tissue deficits and even scars can be treated to improve appearance and function.
Our custom extraoral maxillofacial prosthetics, craniofacial prosthetics, and therapeutic/protective devices are provided in collaboration with physicians in California, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Tennessee, Florida, New Jersey, and New York. Medical Art Prosthetics can create for you a life-like, natural-looking new prosthesis or custom functional device for restored quality of life. Please contact us today and tell us about your needs. We are here to help.
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Mary J.'s Story
Japan
Woman Receives Custom Prosthetics to Cover Severe Scars
After a traumatic burn left deep scarring a woman traveled from Japan to the USA for customized prosthetics from Medical Art Prosthetics, LLC. The process to create a silicone scar covering was not technically challenging for us, but apparently our patient could not find a prosthetics provider that could offer a prosthetic result in her country. It is not uncommon that unique prosthetic cases are declined by providers. Private practitioners or even large institutions might not have the proper silicones and materials, or they might anticipate encountering technical or artistic challenges they cannot meet. They might be unwilling to assume the risk of creating a dissatisfied patient. Patient expectations are very hard to anticipate and manage in a sensitive way. Many prosthetics facilities focused on revenue generation goals might have the material capability but still decline, instead assigning technicians to projects with greater profit margin. Medical Art Prosthetics welcomes patients who have been frustrated in all these circumstances.
The ultimate solution was a thin lightweight silicone chest covering that was designed to suspend around the patient’s neck. A final strategy was to wear an attractive necklace to cover and conceal the cotton neck string that suspended the prosthesis. The mold was heavy and time intensive to create but produced a durable piece.
The patient left with a simple apron-like cover that was tinted to match the character of the adjacent skin of her neck, breasts, and shoulders. This allowed her to wear more casual dresses and button down blouses as opposed to feeling she always had to wear turtleneck style clothing.
When Quality Matters
Our design sessions are comfortable for the patient and productive for the facial anaplastologist because our specialized environment is quiet, relaxed and conducive to the unique creative technical process. Some visit us from the other side of the world for the process and results we offer. We can create for you a life-like, natural-looking new prosthesis.