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ENT Surgeries

Sleep Medicine and Surgery

As experts in this field, we use a multidisciplinary approach that includes state-of-the-art diagnostic and surgical techniques to help patients with breathing problems that can cause sleep disorders, including obstructive sleep apnea and snoring. Our approach is uniquely patient-tailored and combines lifestyle education with the latest office based and surgical procedures, including:

  • Nutritional education
  • CPAP evaluations
  • Office snoring procedures
  • Palate surgery
  • Functional rhinoplasty
  • Tongue base resection
  • Jaw and tongue repositioning and advancement

 

Facial Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery

Severe trauma or a head and neck tumor can have a devastating effect on how a patient looks, eats, breathes, speaks, swallows and interacts with the world. Dr. Robert DeFatta is a board certified Facial Plastics and Reconstructive surgeon who thrives on these most challenging cases. His goal is to restore the patient’s appearance and function and allow them to feel whole again. His experience in aesthetically reconstructing large head and neck defects has allowed him to hone his skills for the delicate cosmetic surgery of the face and neck. He has extensive experience in performing rejuvenating and aesthetic procedures to correct imperfections that can compromise a patient’s self-confidence.

 

Skull Base Surgery

Our Head & Neck Center experts are constantly striving to stay at the forefront of medicine.

With this goal in mind, they offer their patients the least invasive surgical procedures, which allow for less painful surgery and a shorter recovery. Dr. Robert DeFatta’s commitment and expertise is evident by having established a skull base surgery program in upstate New York that offered:

  • The latest, completely endonasal approaches to the anterior and middle cranial fossas and brainstem
  • Cutting-edge, compassionate care that obviated the need for patient and family travel during a time of crisis and vulnerability.

The program at Sacred Heart Hospital similarly offers:

  • Incision-free transnasal access to brain tumor resection
  • Endoscopic and external skull base approaches
  • Endoscopic transnasal approaches to brainstem masses