Plastic surgery
Plastic surgery is a surgery that is done to change the way a person's body looks or works.[1] Some plastic surgeries can change both. Work can be done on someone's bones, cartilage, muscles, fat, and skin.[2]
The two most common forms of plastic surgery are reconstruction (fixing body parts that have been damaged) and cosmetic (changing size shape or color of body parts to make them look better). An example of reconstructive plastic surgery[3] is fixing a part of the body that has been burned. An example of cosmetic plastic surgery is a surgery called a "face-lift": pulling the skin of the face tight so that the client looks younger.
Plastic Surgery Media
Plates vi & vii of the Edwin Smith Papyrus at the Rare Book Room, New York Academy of Medicine
The Roman scholar Aulus Cornelius Celsus recorded surgical techniques, including plastic surgery, in the 1st century AD.
Illustration of an 18th-century nose reconstruction method from Poona performed by an Indian potter, from The Gentleman's Magazine, 1794
Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach established many modern techniques of reconstructive surgery.
Walter Yeo, a sailor injured at the Battle of Jutland, is assumed to have received plastic surgery in 1917. The photograph shows him immediately following (right) the flap surgery by Sir Harold Gillies, and after healing (left).[source?]
References
- ↑ Whitworth, I. H.. Recent developments in plastic surgery. BMJ 325 (7359) (10 August 2002). p. 319–322. doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7359.319.
- ↑ Hollywood using plastic Surgery. Hollywood Natural Healing. Retrieved 2015-10-21.
- ↑ Reconstructive Plastic Surgery (in en). Retrieved 2023-06-15.
