Pediatric Plastic Surgery
Augusta, GA, UNITED STATES
Dr. Yu is director of the Craniofacial Center at Children's Hospital of Georgia, where he has repaired cleft palates for more than 20 years.
Dr. Yu has been included in Castle Connolly's America's Top Doctors list, the top 1 percent nationwide, in pediatric plastic surgery for more than 15 years.
2018-03-30Medical College of Georgia
Medical College of Georgia
Children's Hospital of Georgia online
2018-03-23
Cleft lip and/or palate, also known as an oral-facial cleft, is one of the most common congenital conditions, affecting one in every 700 births. While there may not necessarily be a good answer to the “why,” the good news is that with persistence, dedication and regular care, oral-facial clefts can be repaired successfully, said Dr. Jack Yu, a plastic surgeon at the Craniofacial Center at the Children’s Hospital of Georgia—which isn’t something that can be said for many congenital conditions.
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2018-06-03
Immune cells that are ready to take action against invaders like bacteria have been found in women's breast milk, researchers say. Short term, the ILCs in breast milk may help protect newborns from infection, and longer term help babies develop their own protective immune system, they report in JAMA Pediatrics. "We were looking for the source which can provide immune protection to the baby while it develops its own immune system," says Dr. Jack Yu, chief of pediatric plastic surgery at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.
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2017-03-15
A less strenuous form of exercise known as whole-body vibration (WBV) can mimic the muscle and bone health benefits of regular exercise in mice, according to a new study. WBV consists of a person sitting, standing or lying on a machine with a vibrating platform. When the machine vibrates, it transmits energy to the body, and muscles contract and relax multiple times during each second.
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2016-10-17
The mouth is widely considered the dirtiest part of the human body, yet babies have surprisingly low infection rates following cleft lip and palate surgery.
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2016-10-16
In the operating room at the Children’s Hospital of Georgia, Drs. Jack Yu and Mohamad Masoumy put the final stitches into the face of a 5-month-old boy after repairing his cleft lip.
view morePLOS
2015
The use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) for the treatment of depression during pregnancy is suggested to increase the incidence of craniofacial abnormalities including craniosynostosis. Little is known about this mechanism, however based on previous data we propose a mechanism that affects cell cycle.
The Anatomical Record
2014
Craniosynostosis (CS) is a relatively common birth defect resulting from the premature fusion of one or more cranial sutures. Human genetic studies have identified several genes in association with CS.
Annals of Plastic Surgery
2014
Plastic surgeons reconstruct hard and soft tissues in many parts of the human body. Penile reconstruction is unique in that the target tissue has to be soft but intermittently rigid.