Stuart Hamilton a Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeon at St John’s Hospital, Livingston, UK, where he provides routine hand surgery, complex post-trauma reconstruction, laser surgery for vascular lesions, pigmented lesions including tattoos, and skin resurfacing, as well as assisting with the major head and neck surgery workload and the cleft service.
Stuart undertook extensive multi-specialty training in Glasgow and in England prior to going into plastic surgery. He started plastic surgery in 1995 working in Swansea, then spent two years in Cambridge before returning North, first to Dundee and then Edinburgh.
JOURNALS REVIEWED: CLINICS OF PLASTIC SURGERY and ANNALS OF PLASTIC SURGERY – Oct 2013 - Jan 2015
Latest Contribution
Fingers and toes and how to do it!
The authors provide an excellent historical and current overview of the options for reconstruction of injuries of the thumb and finger tips. This takes you through the reconstructive ladder in its entirety, but also discusses philosophically the different approaches we...
The original suture suspension necklift before the i-guide
In this excellent issue of the Clinics in Plastic Surgery the topic of neck lifting is discussed. This covers the assessment, non-surgical management, minimally invasive techniques and open techniques. This invited paper looks into the authors’ experience of suture suspension...
An elegant extension to the facelift, resulting in good neck correction
The author discusses his experience in over 200 cases of an overlapping plication platysmaplasty technique via the facelift incision, thus avoiding a submental incision. A logical argument is made to the benefit of the procedure, providing more extensive retraction in...
