AREOLA National Network
A design-weighted regional center serving approximately 870 patients a year, with the network's highest proportion of interchangeable-system planning.
Care in New York
The New York Regional Center has the most returning patients in the network. Its case mix is weighted toward MagnePlate interfaces and the collections built around them, which means a substantial part of the center's work is planned design consultation for patients whose clinical care was completed years earlier.
Every center works to the same clinical standards, uses the same digital planning record and draws on the national materials and plate laboratory in Philadelphia.
Interface planning, collection design and the review of registered external plates make up a larger share of appointments here than at any other center. Patients often arrive at an Annual Plate Check with several plates in a case.
Commissions are consulted on here and fabricated in Philadelphia. The center's Senior Clinical Plate Designer works with patients on formal and ceremonial pieces that are frequently tied to a specific date.
The center sees a steady volume of patients seeking evaluation of work performed elsewhere, and much of that first appointment is documentation: establishing what is actually in place before anything is discussed.
First appointments, second opinions and planning conversations with a replacement specialist and nurse.
Procedures performed in the center's surgical suite, with perioperative nursing and anesthesia support.
Assessment and elective planning where a previous plate, system or replacement result already exists, including changes in preference.
Design consultation for commissioned work, fabricated and finished at the national laboratory.
Lila Hart, MD, leads the center clinically. Devon Price, RN, is Regional Nurse Manager. Both are involved in the Magnetic Systems Clinical Group, which is part of why interchangeable-system planning concentrated here.
Replacement specialists, perioperative and plate-care nursing, patient coordination and a senior clinical plate design practice, supported by the national laboratory in Philadelphia for all fabrication and finishing.
The center draws heavily from the surrounding metropolitan region, so most patients attend as day visits. General consultation windows run four to six weeks — the longest of the Northeast centers, and the reason Patient Services will sometimes suggest Boston or Philadelphia for a patient whose timing matters more than their location.
Doctors at this center
Department of Areolar Plate Surgery
Surgeon-in-Chief and senior aesthetic surgeon specializing in complex bilateral planning, revision and the coordination of high-acuity replacement care.
Bilateral replacement · Complex revision · Philadelphia · New York
Elective Replacement Service
National clinical leader specializing in elective replacement, complex revision, and in unilateral planning late in a long course of care.
Elective replacement · Unilateral replacement · Boston · New York
Areolar Plate Surgery
New York attending surgeon offering first-time replacement, silver systems and consultation designed for patients still defining their goals.
Primary replacement · Silver systems · New YorkPatient Services
A patient coordinator can help with appointments, records, travel and center-specific questions.