Dr. Maja S. Ruetschi, MD, FACS

Expert Publications

• California ear plugs for rhytidectomy surgery.
• Tissue expansion. A fascinating frontier of reconstructive surgery.
• Breast reconstruction after mastectomy.
• The use of a preoperative pattern in chest wall reconstruction with the latissimus dorsi musculocutaneous flap.
• Variation of latissimus dorsi skin island design for postmastectomy reconstruction.
• Preoperative pattern in chest-wall reconstruction with latissimus dorsi.
• Breast reconstruction after mastectomy. Part I: reconstruction with no additional skin or muscle flaps.

Media Releases

Get to know Plastic Surgeon Dr. Maja S. Ruetschi, who serves patients in Rancho Mirage, California.

An experienced plastic surgeon, Dr. Ruetschi is affiliated with Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage, California. She offers patients her expertise of 40 years experience including superior results for facial aging and breast implant revision surgery.

As the valley’s only not-for-profit hospital, Eisenhower Health has provided high quality, compassionate care for more than 45 years through a full range of state-of-the-art diagnostic, treatment and emergency facilities. It is an accredited teaching hospital, with a School of Graduate Medical Education training new physicians in the specialties of family medicine and internal medicine.

A native of Geneva, Dr. Ruetschi graduated with her medical degree from the University of Geneva. Upon relocating to the United States, she completed her internship and residency in plastic surgery at the Cornell University Medical Center. Finally, she completed her fellowship in head and neck reconstruction and breast reconstruction at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

As a testament of her continued education, the doctor is board-certified in plastic surgery by the American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS). The mission of the ABPS is to promote safe, ethical, efficacious plastic surgery to the public by maintaining high standards for the education, examination, certification, and continuous certification of plastic surgeons as specialists and subspecialists.

Plastic surgery is a surgical specialty involving the restoration, reconstruction, or alteration of the human body. It can be divided into two main categories – reconstructive surgery and cosmetic surgery. A plastic surgeon’s primary responsibility is performing surgical and non-surgical procedures, and they use a variety of reparative and reconstructive techniques to get the job done.

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