User:Cullen328/Sandbox/Reinisch

I am not a physician, so I just go by what the reliable sources say. According to Google Scholar, the most cited articles by both Reinisch and Burt were published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery , the journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Reinisch was the sole author of a 1974 paper that has been cited 199 times. Brent was the sole author of a 1992 article that has been cited 244 times. Reinisch has published many other articles in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery as well as widely cited articles in other reputable medical journals, such as Pediatrics, the American Journal of Pathology, the Journal of Cutaneous Pathology, Fetal and Pediatric Pathology, Annals of Plastic Surgery, Genes, Chromosomes and Cancer, and the American Journal of Orthodontics & Dentofacial Orthopedics. His 2009 article in Facial Plastic Surgery, "Ear Reconstruction Using a Porous Polyethylene Framework and Temporoparietal Fascia Flap" describes the results of his team's work on 788 ears over an 18 year period. Brent reconstructs the outer ears of microtia patients using cartilage, while Reinisch uses a polyethelene framework. The fact that another physician may have used the polyethelene framework technique earlier on a burn patient is interesting but has nothing directly to do with reconstruction in microtia cases. Droliver seems to think that we should accept his personal opinions about which plastic surgeons are notable and which aren't, because Droliver claims to be a plastic surgeon who knows who's who in the field. Droliver may well be a surgeon, but we have no way of knowing for sure. Personal opinions mean very little in these debates. Droliver's comment about the "context of notable contemporary surgeons" shows a lack of understanding of our notability standards, as it is well-established here that notablity is not temporary. This is not a "contemporary" encyclopedia, and someone notable four decades ago or 400 years ago is still notable. What we can know is what Reinisch has published over the decades in reputable journals, and it is quite a bit over 38 years. That leads me to believe that both John Reinisch and Burt Brent are notable.