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Integra enabled a little girl to grow into a woman and become a mother

Severely burned when an oil heater in her French countryside home accidentally exploded, 5-year-old Malory Sculfort was transferred to a special burn center at Trousseau in Paris. “It was a terrible case with extremely deep burns, mostly to the face and upper limbs,” recalls Dr. Jean-Michel Rives, M.D., Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, and Diplomat, European Board of Plastic Surgery, who was assigned to Malory’s case. “All of her facial structure was destroyed, almost carbonized.” With limited tools at his disposal, Dr. Rives, a pioneer in his field, found hope in a new procedure – Integra® Dermal Regeneration Template (IDRT) technique to treat burn victims. “Integra was the only opportunity for me to first save her life and then restore her face,” says Dr. Rives, who became the first surgeon in his country to use IDRT.