Dr. Dinh uses a tissue replacement technique he has used many times to cover life-threatening openings in patients' chests

"We have a procedure to bring a muscle flap to cover the exposed heart and to reconstruct the chest wall, for example, and reconstruct the sternum, and that keeps the heart covered," he said.

Tue Dinh was born in Vietnam and came to the United States with his family in 1975. But since he left medical school he has returned to his birth country many times with his siblings, who are also doctors/plastic surgeons to help people there.

"I just have an emotional attachment, my brother and I and my sister, to go back to Vietnam and we try to go back practically every year," he said.

In one well-known case in Vietnam, Dr. Dinh helped this seven-year-old boy, Thien Nhan, who was mutilated by wild animals when he was a baby.

Dr. Dinh says restoring the boy's physical appearance helps him psychologically, as well.

In the near future, Dr. Dinh says, advances in the use of stem cells and other techniques may allow him to do even more for such patients.

“Hopefully, in the near future we can create something that is completely new from the lab and transfer and create. This is an exciting time to be a plastic surgeon," he said.

But for now, Dr. Dinh continues to innovate with traditional techniques to help his grateful patients.

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