22 Facts About Plastic surgery

Plastic surgery is a surgical specialty involving the restoration, reconstruction, or alteration of the human body.

The early trauma Plastic surgery textbook was named after the American Egyptologist, Edwin Smith.

Reconstructive Plastic surgery techniques were being carried out in India by 800 BC.

Father of modern plastic surgery is generally considered to have been Sir Harold Gillies.

When World War II broke out, plastic surgery provision was largely divided between the different services of the armed forces, and Gillies and his team were split up.

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Plastic surgery disposed of the "convalescent uniforms" and let the patients use their service uniforms instead.

Plastic surgery's other important work included development of the walking-stalk skin graft, and the discovery that immersion in saline promoted healing as well as improving survival rates for patients with extensive burns — this was a serendipitous discovery drawn from observation of differential healing rates in pilots who had come down on land and in the sea.

Aesthetic surgery is a central component of plastic surgery and includes facial and body aesthetic surgery.

Pediatric craniofacial Plastic surgery mostly revolves around the treatment of congenital anomalies of the craniofacial skeleton and soft tissues, such as cleft lip and palate, microtia, craniosynostosis, and pediatric fractures.

Craniofacial surgery is an important part of all plastic surgery training programs.

Ethnic plastic surgery is plastic surgery performed to change ethnic attributes, often considered used as a way of "passing".

Hand Plastic surgery is concerned with acute injuries and chronic diseases of the hand and wrist, correction of congenital malformations of the upper extremities, and peripheral nerve problems .

Hand surgery is an important part of training in plastic surgery, as well as microsurgery, which is necessary to replant an amputated extremity.

The hand Plastic surgery field is practiced by orthopedic surgeons and general surgeons.

Scar tissue formation after Plastic surgery can be problematic on the delicate hand, causing loss of dexterity and digit function if severe enough.

MicroPlastic surgery is generally concerned with the reconstruction of missing tissues by transferring a piece of tissue to the reconstruction site and reconnecting blood vessels.

Plastic surgery performed on an incarcerated population in order to affect their recidivism rate, a practice instituted in the early 20th century that lasted until the mid-1990s.

Usually, good results would be expected from plastic surgery that emphasize careful planning of incisions so that they fall within the line of natural skin folds or lines, appropriate choice of wound closure, use of best available suture materials, and early removal of exposed sutures so that the wound is held closed by buried sutures.

Reconstructive plastic surgery is performed to correct functional impairments caused by burns; traumatic injuries, such as facial bone fractures and breaks; congenital abnormalities, such as cleft palates or cleft lips; developmental abnormalities; infection and disease; and cancer or tumors.

The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery looks at the statistics for 34 different cosmetic procedures.

Common complications of cosmetic Plastic surgery includes hematoma, nerve damage, infection, scarring, implant failure and organ damage.

Half of the patients with the disorder who have cosmetic Plastic surgery performed are not pleased with the aesthetic outcome.