Dr. Utku Dolen

05/12/2024

62nd Annual Scientific Meeting of Midwestern Association of Plastic Surgeons was a blast with record number of attendance and highly scientific content. It was also a wonderful opportunity to catch up with my colleagues and my mentors. See you next year in Lake Geneva.

04/12/2024

🚨 2 People Hospitalized from possible counterfeit Botox in Chicago 🚨

As a board certified plastic surgeon, Dr. Utku Dolen recently participated in the live broadcast of .

💥Dr. Dolen emphasized :💥

🩺: Verify your provider through state license verification website ( see link in comments ).

🩺: Make sure your provider’s advertised name, title and credentials match the information shown on the state license verification website .

💉: If you feel pressured to buy any product or service, it is better to walk away and get a second opinion. If it sounds too good to be true- it probably is!

📸: Do not believe everything you see on social media.

⚠️: Make sure you are treated like a patient and not like a customer.

Any patient that steps into our clinic goes through a comprehensive exam to ensure they are a good candidate for the procedure, and that the procedure is the right choice for them!

04/07/2024

⚠️Sensitive Content⚠️
This is an 85 year old woman who previously had a right knee replacement. She fell at home and had large bleeding in her knee (hematoma). Necessary surgery was performed by my orthopedist colleagues but her thin skin couldn’t tolerate the pressure from the hematoma and started to die.

When I was consulted, her right knee skin was fully necrotic (dead).
I removed the necrotic tissue and covered her knee implant with the medial and lateral gastrocnemius muscle flaps (leg muscle) and skin graft from right thigh.

It was definitely a long journey for her but she healed so well that it is difficult to tell she had knee reconstruction.

Photos:
📷 Necrotic skin over the knee
📷 Closure of the defect with muscle flap
📷 Coverage of muscle flap with skin graft
📷 2 weeks after the surgery
📷 4 months after surgery
📷 4 months after surgery, while she was standing

04/06/2024

Here is a video of SPY Portable Handheld Imager (SPY-PHI) showing blood flow in skin vessels of mastectomy flap (breast skin after breast tissue was removed). We first give patient intravenous indocyanine green and in couple seconds special camera allows us to visualize the blood vessels.
This mastectomy flap was very well perfused (the whole skin turned “white” pretty quickly) and I proceeded with reconstruction as planned.

03/31/2024

Happy Doctor’s Day!

03/24/2024

We give you the tools to prep, recover, & MAINTAIN your results! 🧖🏽‍♀️ Come in for a consult to learn more about our resurfacing lasers, RF micro-needing, hair removal & tattoo removal.

03/24/2024

03/10/2024

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