Dr. Paul Tessier

Abstract

Within 3 years, Dr. Tessier had improved on his initial work by providing exposure for much of the procedure through a coronal approach, he had begun to section the arch rather than the body of the zygoma, and he placed bone grafts in the pterygomaxillary gap, all of which gave added stability to the midface segment without requiring an external head frame. Because of his work, Dr. Tessier was a founding member of the International Society of Craniofacial Surgery and the European Association of Maxillo-Facial Surgeons, and had been honored many times, including receiving honorary memberships in the American College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Surgeons (London), and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.