Areas of Expertise

Sun Wenhai works in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital. With years of experience, he specializes in hand and foot deformities, microsurgical reconstruction and replantation, scars, and more.

Biography

Sun Wenhai, Associate Chief Physician, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. M.D., Visiting Scholar at NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, USA.
Work Experience: Worked for 15 years in the Department of Hand and Foot Surgery at Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, during which he served as Director of Ward I of Hand and Foot Surgery for 10 years.
Has more than 20 years of extremely rich frontline clinical experience and is renowned in the field for a meticulous aesthetic surgical style and superb surgical skills. Has accumulated extensive technical experience from successfully serving as lead surgeon in thousands of complex hand and foot deformity reconstruction surgeries and flap surgeries.
In 2003, together with Professor Wang Zengtao, established an internationally leading, highly technically demanding series of full-form thumb and finger reconstruction procedures, and has mastered all of these procedures; from 2019 to February 2020, first applied the new lengthening procedure to the treatment of type D brachydactyly, designed technical details such as the surgical approach and process of the new lengthening procedure, and took the lead in clinical application and achieved satisfactory results.
Areas of Expertise
1. Hand and foot deformities: duplicated thumb; type D brachydactyly; polydactyly (extra fingers/toes); macrodactyly (enlarged toes/fingers); constriction band deformity; syndactyly (webbed fingers/toes); Kirner deformity; clinodactyly; short/deficient digits; thumb hypoplasia; and other limb deformities in children and adults.
2. Microsurgical reconstruction and replantation: aesthetic reconstruction of thumb and finger defects; tissue defect repair; microsurgical replantation.
3. Scars: scars of the hands and feet, limbs, etc.