Board-certified plastic surgeon Dan Smith, MD maintains a practice in Carlsbad's Poinsettia area on Via Denise, near Poinsettia Park in the 92010 ZIP code. His reconstructive and cosmetic surgical scope overlaps with the medical dermatology caseload at West Dermatology Carlsbad, which refers Mohs-surgery patients requiring flap closure and complex scar revision to reconstructive plastic surgeons. He earned his medical degree from Saint Louis University School of Medicine in 1962, completed surgical residencies at the University of California San Diego Medical Center and Scripps Mercy Hospital, and finished his plastic surgery residency at Orlando Health in 1968. His NPI record (1548530454) reflects continuous California licensure since the late 1960s, and maxillofacial reconstruction cases requiring coordination between plastic surgery and oral surgery disciplines draw on the same anatomical territory served by El Camino Oral and Facial Surgery on El Camino Real. Highest-complexity procedures in this specialty include microsurgical free-tissue-transfer flap reconstruction, rhinoplasty with cartilage-graft augmentation, and full-thickness skin-graft placement following oncologic excision.