More About Our Surgeon

Because I know how hard it is to decide on any surgeon or physician for my children and even more so on a surgeon who will be performing major craniofacial surgery, perhaps throughout my child's life, I feel it is important to offer my experiences and opinions for the benefit of other parents searching for the right surgeon.

My husband and I are driven to deep research and analytical examination in everything we do. Trust me when I say that he and I exhaustively researched physicians and it was still hard to come to a final choice.  While there are not a lot of surgeons experienced enough to handle a case like our son's, there are several very good ones.  However, we were sure we had chosen the correct doctor once we met with Dr. Kane.  But I will warn you that even if you believe you have chosen the correct doctor, it still feels like jumping off a cliff when your child is wheeled back into surgery.  You hope and pray that you have "chosen wisely" in the one aspect of your child's care that you really have any control over.  Anything can happen in a surgery under general anasthesia no matter who your surgeon is; you can only hope that that one ultimate choice you made, the doctor, is the best you could make with the information available.

For us, it turned out that we could not have chosen better. All the trips, consultations, scans and the unexpectedly long journey to this surgery, appears to have worked together to bring us to the right place. So far, Dr. Alex Kane and his Craniofacial team at Children's Medical Center Dallas fulfilled every expectation that we could have asked for in the care of any of our children. We were impressed by their personal interest in Lukasz' care.  They all seem to be genuine, good, approachable people with whom we felt welcome to discuss any issues or concerns.  Our family would recommend them to anyone seeking a craniofacial surgeon to treat their child from a minor issue up to, and including, more complicated and serious cases.  Lukasz' case is pretty involved.  If Dr. Kane can handle him, it's likely he can handle your child's issues as well.

Here is a 2011 Youtube video I found introducing Dr. Kane (starting at 3:42).  It also shows how the craniofacial team works, as well as following a child with a clift lip through treatment.  The video also follows the care of a patient in another specialty, so you'll have to keep watching to see all of the information about Dr. Kane and his team.