Meet Dr. Michael Alperovich
June 14, 2021Meet Dr. Michael Alperovich
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Learn more about Dr. Michael Alperovich and his care of patients with Cosmetic, Plastic, and Reconstructive Surgery, to provide a surgery that will maximize the patient’s quality of life by restoring or recreating appearance and function to the best possible state.
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- 00:00My name is Michael Alperovich.
- 00:02I'm an assistant professor of
- 00:04surgery at Yale. I specialize in
- 00:06plastic and aesthetic surgery.
- 00:08My reconstructive practice is
- 00:09centered on caring for patients with
- 00:11pediatric craniofacial conditions.
- 00:12My aesthetic practices centered
- 00:13on patients related to the face,
- 00:16breast, and abdomen,
- 00:17restoring a patient's appearance and
- 00:18ultimately confidence never gets old.
- 00:20I'm lucky that by improving
- 00:22the patient's quality of life,
- 00:23it has a ripple effect on every
- 00:26part of their day to day lives.
- 00:29As a father of four my children,
- 00:30the most important people in the world to me.
- 00:33I understand what it means when a
- 00:35parent places their trust in me
- 00:37and I don't take that privilege
- 00:38for granted in my early 20s.
- 00:40I was very fortunate to be able
- 00:42to travel to southern India to
- 00:43remote village where we performed
- 00:45cleft lip and palate surgeries.
- 00:47Our team work 12 to 15 hours a
- 00:49day taking care of patients who
- 00:51couldn't get care anywhere else.
- 00:52Entire families traveled hundreds
- 00:54of miles in order to be able
- 00:56to receive this care.
- 00:57Patient slept and fold out,
- 00:58beds their parents and their siblings
- 01:00slept on the floor next to them.
- 01:02These children's.
- 01:03Got a chance at a normal life
- 01:06their parents had hope and I
- 01:08discovered my life's calling.
- 01:10My research focus goes hand in
- 01:12hand with my clinical practice.
- 01:14I studied the same areas that
- 01:17I'm clinically productive in.
- 01:19More specifically, I evaluate the functional,
- 01:21the morphologic, the psychosocial,
- 01:23neurocognitive impact of the
- 01:24cranial facial conditions.
- 01:26I treat including craniosynostosis cleft
- 01:28lip and palate, mandibular distraction,
- 01:30and ear deformities.
- 01:31When I advise a patient.
- 01:33My recommendations are grounded
- 01:35in the best available evidence.
- 01:36I really hope that in 20 years
- 01:38I'm not doing the same thing in
- 01:41the same way as we are doing now.
- 01:43For instance,
- 01:44when we advise parents on
- 01:45craniosynostosis surgery or researchers,
- 01:47Yale has shown that there is
- 01:49improved cognitive function.
- 01:50If you operate at a younger age.
- 01:53Surgery at closer to five months
- 01:55as opposed to 8 to 10 months,
- 01:57which is what I trained to do.
- 01:59I led the first study in the world
- 02:01to compare the multiple comparisons
- 02:03of different surgical techniques
- 02:04to repair sagittal sinus ptosis.
- 02:06I compared spring assisted surgery to
- 02:08cranial vault remodeling and because
- 02:10of the evidence that we showed,
- 02:11we were able to find that there's
- 02:14an improved outcome.
- 02:14If you perform surgery using
- 02:16cranial vault remodeling.
- 02:17For that reason,
- 02:18Ioffer cranial vault remodeling for
- 02:19my patients with sagittal sinus
- 02:21ptosis as a cranial facial surgeon.
- 02:23I operate on the skull.
- 02:24The face and the draw where the
- 02:26difference of a couple of millimeters
- 02:28can make the difference between
- 02:30a good result and a great result.
- 02:33I leverage technology, computer modeling,
- 02:343D planning to get the best possible
- 02:37result for my patients,
- 02:38whether I'm trying to land a plate
- 02:40and screws on a two week old baby
- 02:43who needs jaw distraction for
- 02:45trouble breathing or plan the cuts
- 02:47for a frontal sinus
- 02:48set back for a facial feminization surgery.
- 02:51I leverage cutting edge technology to provide
- 02:53the best possible outcomes for my patients.