Cosmetic surgery being so popular, many people are not aware that there are two types of plastic surgery: Cosmetic plastic surgery and Reconstructive plastic surgery. Cosmetic surgery is the improvement of a person’s natural features on a purely aesthetic level with the absence of trauma or physical deformity. The most popular cosmetic surgeries today include the removal of blemishes with a lasers, breast augmentation, rhinoplasty (remolding of the nose), blepharoplasty (removing of excess skin from the eye lids), face lifts, and botox.
Reconstructive surgery is the correction of a physical feature which may be disformed or abnormal due to a birth defect, congenital disease, illness, or trauma. Reconstructive surgery involves the restoration or function due to a damaged body part and the rebuilding of normal physical contours when parts of the body such as the nose, ears, or fingers are missing or disfigured.
Although many people think of plastic surgery as a relatively recent innovation, the practice of surgically enhancing or restoring parts of the body has its beginnings more than 4000 years ago. The oldest cosmetic surgery practices may date back to Egypt in the Third Millennium B.C... Where the early accounts described surgical procedures preformed to repair facial trauma and nasal fractures. Advancements continued into the 20th century. As in the Ancient Egypt and India war surgeons was presented the opportunity to prefect their techniques as they repaired the bodies of injured soldiers.
In the 1950’s the technique of tissue expansion was discovered and then later refined by Radoven in the 1970’s. Tissue expansion is a
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