About Us
Thousands of men, women and children experience the absence or loss of facial tissues involving the eye, the orbit, the nose, or the ear. Yet hundreds of them from the United States and around the world now confidently wear facial prosthetics created by MAP anaplastologists as they go about their normal daily lives. The confidence that people enjoy from knowing their facial prosthesis is secure and virtually undetectable is the greatest gift we can offer, and it extends to those who receive the same care and precision in the making of their finger, hand or other aesthetic prosthesis. This is a goal we have dedicated our talent, our clinical training and our facilities to full-time for over 3 cumulative decades as career facial anaplastologists. Our love of this challenge and our reputation for exceptional results and innovation has earned us the support of many returning clients and dental and medical specialists who see for themselves the merits of our unique commitment to specialization in facial and somato prosthetics. We hope you will too!
The Medical Art Prosthetics Clinic anaplastologists and patients have been featured in HEAL magazine (Vol. 1 No. 3 Winter 2007), a publication for head and neck cancer survivors.
Going Beyond:
In no other healthcare field do the benefits of specialization become more graphically apparent than in the field of facial prosthetic restoration. Therefore, our restorations are created and provided in an environment that has been designed to enhance our final aesthetic results and the client's experience with us. The dedication of our facility, our time and our resources for facial and somato prosthetics as primary and secondary specialties is unique in the United States. Yet it attests to our uncompromising approach to the work we love that we hope translates to the lives of the patients we serve.
Our involvement begins as early as possible in your treatment planning and includes open collaboration with any and all of your preferred specialists. Going beyond this we remain fully engaged in our profession and in the advancement of the art and science of facial prosthetic rehabilitation. Medical Art Prostethics, LLC has invested thousands of hours and research dollars in developing innovative techniques and has contributed thousands more as financial sponsors of university-based anaplastology projects.
Who are we?
Gregory Gion
Greg Gion earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Northern Illinois University as a Talented Student Art Scholar and a Bachelor of Science degree in Biocommunication Arts from The University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago. His clinical training in facial prosthetics occurred as part of the Medical Art Prosthetics (MAP) program at UIC where he remained on staff in the maxillofacial prosthetics clinic. While in Chicago he developed a facial prosthetics service for Northwestern Memorial Hospital Dental Center in 1981. Mr. Gion served as facial prosthetist in both clinics for 3 years and an additional year at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio before opening a private practice office in Dallas in 1985.
Mr. Gion has presented on prosthetics topics to anaplastologists, surgeons, nurses, prosthodontists and parents of children with microtia. He is published in peer reviewed journals and has contributed chapters in prosthetics and surgical texts. He has received appointments as adjunct faculty in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and volunteer clinical instructor in the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
In 2005 Mr. Gion opened The Medical Art Prosthetics Office for the Midwest in Madison, Wisconsin. Mr. Gion receives patients in Dallas and Madison MAP facilities. Greg and his wife Terry Gion a clinical nurse specialist at The University of Wisconsin have two children, Alexander and Anna. Greg is on the Board for Certification in Clinical Anaplastology (BCCA) and in recent years has served as chairman of the Committee on Eligibility.
Allison Vest
Allison Vest received her Bachelor of Arts degree from New College in Sarasota, Florida in 2002. Her Master of Science degree was earned in 2004 from the Universty of Illinois at Chicago Graduate School of Biomedical Visualization. Ms. Vest is one of only two interns each year to receive the specialized facial prosthetics team oriented training as a medical artist / clinical anaplastologist in the Maxillofacial Prosthetics Clinic at UIC Medical Center. Her post graduate facial prosthetics training includes an internship in the Maxillofacial Prosthetics Clinic at the University of Florida Medical Center and an externship at the Morriston Hospital in Swansea, Wales.
Ms. Vest was recruited from her native Florida at the end of 2004 to join Greg Gion and Medical Art Prosthetics, LLC in order to provide her rare talents in meeting the growing demand for services of the 20 year practice. Ms. Vest established a digital scanning and rapid prototyping program for in-office production of surgical implant placement guides and prosthesis design. In addition to her comprehensive patient care responsibilities as lead clinical anaplastologist she serves as co-director of The Medical Art Prosthetics Clinic in Dallas.
Allison is married to Bryan Vest, a native Texan and local businessman. They have their home in Richardson Texas, a northern suburb of Dallas with their pet dog Pepper. Allison's hobbies include insect collecting, beading, cooking and animal rescue; she volunteers at the Richardson animal shelter on the weekends. Ms. Vest is actively involved in anaplastology planning and has served as secretary of the American Anaplastology Association.