Dr. Christina Plikaitis specializes in breast surgery, pediatric plastic surgery, and cleft lip and palate. She performs skin cancer reconstruction and surgeries for ear and hand deformities, tissue expansion, facial trauma, and vascular malformations. Areas of specialty include breast reconstruction and reduction, and breast augmentation/lift. She applies the latest techniques, including Wise pattern mastectomy and reconstruction for the large breast.

Dr. Plikaitis is interested in research into breast reconstruction, the comparison of Wise pattern mastectomy and autoderm breast reconstruction versus traditional techniques in the ptotic breast, and use of fat grafting and form-stable implants in the irradiated breast.

She is an associate professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, at Saint Louis University School of Medicine.

Dr. Plikaitis is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgery and the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association.

In her spare time, she enjoys cooking and baking.