Education

• MD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 1959
• Internship and Residency, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, 1959-1964; and Palo Alto Stanford Hospital, Palo Alto, CA, 1964-1968
• Chief Resident, Head and Neck Surgery, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Roswell Park, NY, 1968

Professional Activities

Dr. Dibbell is the traveling professor for the Educational Foundation of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, was on the Advisory Board for INTERPLAST, and presently is on the board of directors of the Nicaplast Foundation. He actively participates in surgery training programs in Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Tibet.

Clinical Specialties

Dr. Dibbell is certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Plastic Surgery. His clinical specialties include head and neck cancers, rhinoplasty and nasal reconstruction, breast, trunk, and genital reconstruction. He is well known for his reconstructive work on children born with cleft lip/nasal defects, his innovative work in the development of major flap reconstruction for various parts of the body, and his correction of adult nasal deformities.

Dr. Dibbell provides a wide range of services including Breast Implant Removal.

Research Interests

Recent Publications

• Constructing muscle flap coverage for vascular grafts in the groin.
  Turnipseed WD, Dibbell DG
  Semin Vasc Surg 2000 Mar; 13(1):62-4.
  [PubMed ID: 10743893]
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• Hidradenitis suppurativa polyposa.
  Wrone DA, Landeck A, Dibbell DG, Xie H, Warner TF
  Pathol. Res. Pract. 2000; 196(8):589-592; discussion 593-4.
  [PubMed ID: 10982024]
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• Advanced hidradenitis suppurativa presenting with bilateral vulvar masses.
  Goldberg JM, Buchler DA, Dibbell DG
  Gynecol. Oncol. 1996 Mar; 60(3):494-7.
  [PubMed ID: 8774665]
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• Abdominal wall reconstruction (the "mutton chop" flap).
  Dibbell DG, Mixter RC, Dibbell DG
  Plast. Reconstr. Surg. 1991 Jan; 87(1):60-5.
  [PubMed ID: 1824579]
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• Retroperitoneal transposition of rectus abdominis myocutaneous flaps to the perineum and back.
  Mixter RC, Wood WA, Dibbell DG
  Plast. Reconstr. Surg. 1990 Mar; 85(3):437-41.
  [PubMed ID: 2137631]
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