Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
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Plastic surgery is a special type of surgery that can involve both a person's appearance and ability to function. Plastic surgeons strive to improve patients' appearance and self-image through both reconstructive and cosmetic procedures.
Reconstructive procedures correct defects on the face or body.
- burns
- traumatic injuries, such as facial bone fractures
- congenital abnormalities, such as cleft lip, or cleft palate
- developmental abnormalities
- infection or disease
- removal of cancers or tumors, such as a mastectomy for a breast cancer, a head and neck cancer and a abdominal invasion by a colon cancer
Reconstructive plastic surgery is usually performed to improve function, but it may be done to approximate a normal appearance.
- Cosmetic (also called aesthetic) procedures alter a part of the body that the person is not satisfied with. Common cosmetic procedures include making the breasts larger (augmentation mammoplasty) or smaller (reduction mammoplasty), reshaping the nose (rhinoplasty), and removing pockets of fat from specific spots on the body (liposuction). Some cosmetic procedures aren't even surgical in the way that most people think of surgery - that is, cutting and stitching. For example, the use of special lasers to remove unwanted hair and sanding skin to improve severe scarring are two such treatments.