Paul Tessier (August 1917 – June 6, 2008) was a French maxillofacial surgeon.
From late 1944 to 1946, he worked at the Center of Maxillofacial Surgery of the Military Region of Paris in Hospital Puteaux.
Dr. Tessier started to improve surgical techniques to correct craniofacial deformations in the mid-1950s.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, he developed the following methods: In the 1970s, he began traveling to the United States to demonstrate his procedures.
Today, his techniques are applied not only to plastic and maxillofacial surgery, but also other specialties such as trauma and neurosurgery.