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FHMC is different from either a general medical hospital or a large university medical center. We provide you with specialty surgery and personal care by the best specialty surgeons and staff.

Just like the major medical centers we have the latest modern equipment and facilities, but that is not what makes us different. The personal care you will receive is unlike the typical impersonal healthcare offered in most large university medical centers. At FHMC we are committed to caring for you as our family.

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Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery

Tissue Expanders—Placement and Removal

Controlled skin stretching results in new skin growth that matches the color, texture and thickness of the surrounding skin. This is most often accomplished by the insertion of an inflatable expander beneath the skin with period injections of saline solutions to slowly stretch the skin. This procedure is used for many cosmetic purposes and to replace skin lost from trauma, wounds, surgery or burns.