6.Dr. Des Fernandes, South Africa
This is another man that revolutionized the field of plastic surgery!
Dr. Des Fernandes is a plastic surgeon based in South Africa and got his medical degree from the Witwatersrand University and then became a part of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh.
But before making a huge career in plastic surgery, he was specialized in cardio-thoracic surgery. Dr. Fernandes was actually part of Christiaan Bernard’s team, the first ones in the world that performed a double heart transplant!
Eventually he turned around to plastic surgery under the tutelage of Dr. David Davies and he was the first one to perform a special facelift technique, the Suture Suspension.
