DR DOUGLAS OUSTERHOUT, PLASTIC SURGEON, FFS SURGERY

The Davis Campus Medical Centre building in San Francisco, location for Douglas Ousterhout

�This web site was developed by and is run by Diane and not by Dr. Ousterhout" it is with his consent. You will see how Diane's surgery helps her with her appearance on the operation pages and how the surgery on her face has changed her life and looks with FFS (Facial Feminization Surgery).This wed site monitors Diane's during and after surgery to the present day, it is honest and a real time experience of a women that has gone through the whole process of improving her life.

Anyone male or female can get the help to improve the shape of their face with this cranial surgery procedure, you can feel better about yourself if nature did not give you the look you wanted. This surgery is not exclusive to gendered women, all women can benefit from this surgery. Doug operates on all patients that feel the need to change their bony shape of the face, I am Diane, you will read a lot about me on this site, it is about my journey, Doug is an incredible surgeon, with 40 years experience in surgery, you are putting yourself into safe hands.

Douglas Ousterhout clinic, consultation and waiting rooms.

The Davies Campus Medical Center is where you will have your surgery performed. Dr. Douglas Ousterhout is a specialist cranial facial plastic surgeon, he helps you to pass as the woman that you are with facial feminization surgery (FFS). This feminization is important for the transsexual women who needs the extra confidence it takes to live in the real world as a female. There are many feminization procedures that can help you in achieving your dream. Dr. Douglas Ousterhout can help improve the way you feel about yourself with the changes cranial surgery can make with your appearance using FFS procedures, bone sculpturing is a more simple way of putting it, your facial bones are reshaped.

Dr Ousterhout is very aware of the distress that people can have with the way they see themselves, masculine features in the face are not pleasant for any women, whether a natural born female or a transsexual women. Dr Ousterhout will try to improve your appearance so that you feel that you fit back into society as the person you want to see in the mirror. You will never meet a nicer man than Doug, he has humour, integrity, kindness and understands the feelings you will have had to reach this stage of wanting such surgery. Doug has touched my heart in a way few people ever will, he is modest about his incredible work, he sculptures your face and the bony tissue as only his touch can. Mira is Dougs PA, she is so much more than that, she will be there for you, guiding you all the way through any difficulties you may have to over come to get yourself ready for this surgery, helping you and hand holding you until your well and up and about again, they are team as one person.

Left: Mira and Douglas Ousterhout Right: Tatiana

Dr Douglas Ousterhout and his background, well he started his college education at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Next he went to the Minerva Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. Later he attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he received his dental degree in 1961, and his medical degree in 1965. While there, he was inducted into several honor societies, including Dental Academic, Medical Historical, and Medical Academic Honor Fraternities.

He continued at the University of Michigan as a resident in general surgery after serving as a Captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps from 1966-1968, and completed my residency in Plastic Surgery at Stanford University Medical Center, where he held the position of Chief Resident from 1971-1972. From there he traveled to Paris to become the first American to assist Doctor Paul Tessier in the techniques of craniofacial surgery.

Upon his return to the United States, he was certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery in 1974, and has been in the practice of plastic surgery in San Francisco since then. He has fellowships with 18 medical societies including American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Societe Francaise de Chirurgie Plastique Reconstructrice et Esthetique, American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons, The Harry S. Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, and the International Society of Craniofacial Surgery.

He has been, on the boards of many plastic surgical societies, including being President of the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons (1994-1995), and on the editorial board of four different plastic surgery journals. He is on the Advisory Committee for "Recommended Guidelines for Transgender Care", AEGIS.

He holds staff memberships at several hospitals, including Davies Medical Center, Saint Francis Memorial Hospital, California Pacific Medical Center, and the University of California, San Francisco, where he is a Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery, participating especially with a panel of experts at the Center for Craniofacial Anomalies. He has operated in many countries outside the United States.

Throughout his career, he has presented dozens of major scientific papers, both nationally and internationally. Dr Douglas ousterhout has published scores of scientific papers, including a medical textbook, Aesthetic Contouring of the Craniofacial Skeleton, which was published in 1991

Douglas Ousterhout removing stitches 5 days after a surgical procedure, this was on Diane who had a lower and mid face lift operation.The stitches being taken out is very easy, but as you can see, I am concentrating more than Doug, this is the final procedure for all of my face work, it involved three operation in total, the story begins below.

PROMOTION DISCOUNT FOR IFGE MEETINGS: We are offering a 20% discount on Bony Facial Feminization Surgery

Because of our interest in the transgender community and because of our concern for the success and growth of the various transgender organizations, in order to help stimulate a greater attendance at these meetings, we are offering a 20% discount on Dr Ousterhout's bony facial feminization surgery to all of those who sign in and attend his presentations for one year beginning at the IFGE meeting in Philadelphia in April 2007 through the IFGE meeting in 2008. This will include the following meetings:

  IFGE:   California Dreamin
                             Esprit
                             BeAll
                             June transgender meeting in UK
                             Southern Comfort
                             First Event
                             Gold Rush
                             IFGE

For more information on these events please contact Mira on the above telephone number or email address.

FFS SURGERY, THE STORY OF DIANE AND MY SURGERY STARTS HERE

Picture left pre any surgery, middle Dec 2006, Right after full facelift April 2007

The picture above is to show the difference that cranial facial surgery can make to improve the skeletal shape of the face. The left picture is a picture taken just hours before the first operation, the right picture is taken after the second operation for complete facial surgery upper brow and lower jaw, click on the operation link to follow the whole story. Operation

Pictures Diane taken March 2005 after full FFS (2 operations) cranial facial surgery with Douglas Ousterhout

Taken in May this picture reflects the different person I have become, because for the first time in my life I can worry about simple things like money, my hair and little things that have always seemed so distant from my life. I have been given a chance to live my life as a normal healthy women, that enjoys getting up in the mornings now, the hand stomach turning feelings of what I look like have disappeared, I am not the stunner that I would dream of being, but normal now in the whole being of a women, everything in my life is ordinary, what a waste of 45 years before this, I have a lot of catching up to do.

All women can benefit from Dougs work, he can make your face prettier for whatever reason, if its a bone shape type contour problem, he can enhance it. This web site is a web site to help other people, it is my testimony to the man Dr Douglas Ousterhout, who does change peoples lives, to me he is my private god, the person that has given me another chance in this life and not having to wait for the next one which we don´t know if we get. If your a parent reading this web site and your child is young, help them before they go into puberty, read the page on Transgender on this site, there are things you can do to help them, this won´t go away for them and they will be very unhappy to suicidal, make a good decision, open the subject up with them.

Exactly one year on from my surgery, this picture taken 6th Dec 2006

This photograph above shows the difference with the healing time after the surgery. My face has changed so much in the last 12 months, almost weekly I can see the difference. I am happy, a friend and I are going out for the evening to the local marina for a drink, the lady with me is a very dear friend, I think of her as a sister, I still always wear my hair up, but that is who I am, some things don't change.

NEW SECTION SPEECH THERAPY FOR GENDER OR TRANSSEXUAL

This speech section is my own thoughts on attempting to change the voice, there is nothing easy about changing the voice and takes total dedication and patience. Its worth adding it to you portfolio of ideas, I had 2 years of speech therapy to aid with my voice and have learned things for myself. There are operations for changing the voice but the risk is high of things not working out well for the vocal chords, all advice I have heard is the surgery for vocal work isn't yet advanced enough to obtain the accuracy I would want, so hence practice and more practice until it improves.

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