Edward W. Knowlton, MD
Practitioners
US surgeons offering the Peg Procedures
Patient Advocate
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Since the debut of Dr. Knowlton's PEG procedures in 1992, numerous surgeons across
the United States have incorporated the techniques into their practice.
Here is what some of them have to say:
-- Hilton Becker, M.D., Breast Reconstruction Expert, Boca Raton, FL
Dr. Hilton Becker is regarded by many as a breast reconstruction expert. In 1989,
Good Housekeeping magazine declared him "one of America's top breast cancer
reconstructive surgeons." He is a frequent presenter at national and international
physician meetings on the topic of breast reconstruction and the use of tissue
expanders following reconstruction. He is also the inventor of the Becker
adjustable breast implant.
Dr. Becker received his medical degree from the University of Witwatersrand
in Johannesburg, South Africa. He completed his general surgery residency in
Johannesburg and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in
Edinburgh, Scotland. He completed plastic surgery residencies in Johannesburg
and at the Medical College of Virginia. He is a Diplomate of the American Board
of Plastic Surgery and maintains a private practice in Boca Raton, Florida.
-- Dexter W. Blome, M.D.
Dexter W. Blome, M.D., Ph.D. has a successful plastic and reconstructive surgery
practice in Columbus, Ohio, where he moved after completing an aesthetic surgery
fellowship in Beverly Hills and Santa Monica, California. Dr. Blome is
double-boarded in otolaryngology (head and neck surgery) and plastic and
reconstructive surgery. In his current practice, his specialization is in
aesthetic surgery and breast surgery.
-- Paul E. Chasan, M.D.
Dr. Chasan graduated Magna Cum Laude from Creighton University School of Medicine
in Omaha, Nebraska. He completed his general surgical residency at the University
of California, San Diego Medical Center and his plastic surgery residency at
the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City. Dr. Chasan is a fully
trained plastic surgeon in all aspects of cosmetic and reconstructive plastic
surgery, including microsurgery and laser, endoscopic and vein surgery. He is
on staff at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California.
"With Dr. Knowlton's Peg Procedures, I think the standard mastectomy scar will no
longer be done. It's the closest thing to the end of the mastectomy scar as we know it."
"I have utilized Dr. Knowlton's Latissimus Dorsi Peg Procedure for immediate
breast reconstruction over the past two years and have found the results to
be better than any other procedure, with patient satisfaction very high and
complications minimal. When a proper skin-sparing mastectomy is employed by
the general surgeon, the Peg Procedure predictably yields spectacular results."
"I truly believe that the Peg Procedure is now the gold standard of breast reconstruction."
