Corvallis, Oregon's Samaritan Health Services has hired two surgeons, Dr. Todd Willcox and Dr. Richard Havard, to head their recently announced Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Clinic, which will be a major expansion of Good Samaritan Regional Medical center, and is scheduled to be built in the next two years.

According to the surgeons, who are currently operate in separate practices, roughly 60% of their work is reconstructive surgery, including post-mastectomy breast reconstruction. The other 40%, they say, is made up of cosmetic procedures, but unlike larger markets like Miami and Los Angeles, breast augmentations and face lifts are not prominent among them.

According to Dr. Havard, even their cosmetic procedures are influenced by health factors, and their most popular request lately has been breast reduction. "I make a lot more breasts smaller than bigger," Havard told the Corvallis Gazette-Times. "Usually the requests are made by women who are having health problems because of the large size of their chests, or who find that their bust gets in the way of doing physical activities that would help them lose weight in other areas."

Havard and Willcox also number body contouring after bariatric surgery among their frequently-performed surgeries. This surgery is often used for patients who have lost significant amounts of weight and need to have loose skin tucked.

Willcox and Havard maintain that they don't make their patients look unnaturally young, and while they do offer non-surgical options such as Botox and collagen injections, they refer to these treatments as "rejuvenation."

While it will still be two years before Havard and Willcox merge their practices and share a building, they are both already looking forward to the new facility, citing better continuity of care as one of the benefits of the Good Samaritan expansion.