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UCSF Magazine - January 22, 2024
Shortly after Alexander Lin, MD, joined UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals in 2022, a 12-year-old boy was flown in for emergency surgery. The child had been run over by a vehicle, and nearly every bone in his face was shattered.
As co-director of UC San Francisco's Craniofacial Center, Lin was the lead plastic surgeon on the case. He had his work cut out for him. The child had suffered severe fractures to his eye sockets, cheeks, nose, and jaws. His eyebrows and lips were torn apart. His forehead bone – which surgeons elsewhere had removed when his brain began to swell – would need to be [...]