The Care Center Concept
A familiar adage says, “It takes a village to raise a child.” In a similar way, it takes a village of specialists to treat children with complex craniofacial anomalies. Most, if not all, of these conditions involve an intricate interplay of problems and systems – often including orthodontics, hearing, speech, movement and neurological development. 
In the Division of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery, we form an interdisciplinary team for each case we undertake. That team is as individual as our patients, and is dedicated and designed to the early diagnosis and treatment of a specific set of pediatric anomalies. While most other major children’s hospitals have a cleft program, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles is currently the only hospital in the country to have specifically designed a team to treat craniosynostosis. Additionally, we are one of a handful of children’s hospitals to have both a Jaw Deformities Center and a Vascular Anomalies Center. Our team members strive to provide the most advanced and compassionate care by performing outpatient procedures whenever possible, which avoids long hospital stays. Eighty percent of our outpatients go home the day of surgery. Above all, we are experts in providing child-friendly care, which tends to the emotional, as well as the physical, needs of children and their families. Here is our village of Care Centers, along with some of the more common conditions they treat:
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