Experienced Team

Our staff is knowledgeable and supportive; our medical facilities and medical personnel are among the best this country has to offer. When your child needs facial reconstructive surgery or another medical procedure, you want to know that they are in good hands. We care for every child’s physical and emotional wellbeing.

Comprehensive Care

Pediatric Plastic Surgery Institute, will assist you with obtaining the best care for your child and family. We offer a full range of pediatric plastic surgery, our Surgeons have over 100 years of experience in helping families with children who may present with; cleft lip and/or cleft palate, craniosynostosis, deformational plagiocephaly, vascular malformations, and other general plastic surgery needs.

Welcome to the Pediatric Plastic Surgery Institute

Having a new baby can be an exciting time for families. Bringing a new baby home is always a challenge, as schedules change to welcome the new baby. For families of newborns with a congenital facial difference, the challenge includes finding specialists that can provide care for the family.

Pediatric Plastic Surgery Institute, will assist you with obtaining the best care for your child and family. We offer a full range of pediatric plastic surgery, our Surgeons have over 100 years of experience in helping families with children who may present with; cleft lip and/or cleft palate, craniosynostosis, deformational plagiocephaly, vascular malformations, and other general plastic surgery needs.

Our Outstanding Doctors

H. Steven Byrd, M.D.

Dr. H. Steve Byrd is a board certified plastic surgeon, and sees patients in our Dallas and Frisco locations. He specializes in pediatric plastic and craniofacial surgery, including cleft lip and palate, congenital and acquired nasal deformities, craniofacial reconstruction, ear reconstruction and ear molding. He has authored chapters in Mustardé & Jackson’s Plastic Surgery in Infancy and Childhood (Nasal Reconstruction: Trauma and Tumors), Grabb & Smith’s Plastic Surgery (Cleft Lip), and Losee & Kirschner’s Comprehensive Cleft Care (Correction of Secondary Unilateral Cleft Lip and Nose Deformities). Dr. Byrd also pioneered the Earwell™ Infant Ear Correction system, a non-surgical device utilized in infancy to correct ear deformities.

Following completion of his residency at the University of Texas Southwestern in 1978, he entered private practice at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas and was appointed vice-chairman to the Division of Plastic Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He has been distinguished as a full professor at the aforementioned University, and has served as Chief of Service at Baylor University Medical Center of Dallas.

In addition, Dr. Byrd is the Director of the Craniofacial Clinic at Medical City Children’s Hospital, is a founding member and past president of the Rhinoplasty Society and a former member of the board of the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation, as well as holding memberships in the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association. He lectures nationally and internationally on rhinoplasty, unilateral & bilateral cleft lip repair, staged cleft palate repair, secondary correction of cleft lip & palate, primary and secondary repair of the cleft nasal deformity, and timing & techniques of repair of the alveolar cleft with cancellous bone grafts.

In a recent poll, “Best Doctors in America”, Dr. Byrd was elected by his peers-throughout the country, not just in Dallas-as one of the top plastic surgeons in the United States. He credits this acknowledgment to his uncompromising commitment to the highest standard of patient care, to the development of innovative and state of the art surgical techniques, and to the betterment of his specialty through the educational and governmental process. Dr. Byrd was also repeatedly named one of Texas’ SuperDoctors® by Texas Monthly Magazine, as well as one of D Magazine’s Top Pediatric Specialists.

(Super Doctors® is a registered trademark of Key Professional Media, Inc.)

To learn more about Dr. Byrd, please visit his website at www.drstevebyrd.com.

Matthew J Trovato MD

A graduate of Duke University, Dr. Trovato completed plastic and reconstructive surgery training in New Jersey, hand and microsurgical subspecialization at the Buncke Clinic in San Francisco, and craniofacial subspecialization at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

As part of the craniofacial team at Pediatric Plastic Surgery Institute and faculty at Baylor University Medical Center, Dr. Trovato is active in training residents and fellows. He has published numerous articles and chapters on many plastic and craniofacial surgery topics. Board Certified in Cosmetic and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, Dr. Trovato is a founding member of the Pediatric Plastic Surgery Institute.

In Dr. Trovato’s own words:

I spent so much of my childhood building and rebuilding things; from erector sets, lawnmower engines and antique furniture, to restoring a 1968 Ford Mustang when I was fifteen. I then joined the volunteer ambulance corps and from that experience decided to become a doctor. In medical school, I realized that plastic surgery focused on restoring the human body. That combination of art and mechanics was incredibly exciting…

When one thinks of plastic surgery, they generally think about cosmetic procedures, scars and making older people look younger. While I perform breast lifts, tummy tucks, and Botox on my adult patients – and use the same attention to detail in pediatric plastic surgery – kids benefit from a different approach.

Our pediatric patients and their families certainly have some cosmetic goals. But more importantly, for example, in a child with an ear deformity, another goal is looking like the other kids in school and not being teased or bullied. In a newborn with a cleft lip and palate, the concerns are focused on eating, speech, and smiling like all the other children. In a child who has suffered a facial injury or burn, the concerns are in repairing and restoring the damaged bones and tissues. In a child with facial paralysis, the focus is in recreating a symmetric smile.

Since general surgery, plastic surgery, hand and microsurgery, and pediatric and craniofacial training, my desire to use the skills I have learned to give back to my community has only grown. I spend Thursdays at the pediatric craniofacial clinic in Dallas and enjoy medical missions in Zimbabwe, India, and the Dominican Republic with the LEAP Foundation. I’ve been working with Operation Smile on an exciting project to give back here in the U.S.”

To learn more about Dr. Trovato, please visit his website at www.drmjtrovato.com.

*Photography by Tatyana Bessmertnaya 2013.

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