Plastic Surgeon

2024 Author: Rachel Wainwright | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 07:39

A plastic surgeon is a surgical specialist who, with the help of surgery, can eliminate defects, deformations of organs and tissues, as well as the consequences of age-related changes and injuries on the body surface.

Distinguish between plastic surgery with aesthetic and reconstructive purposes. But in some cases, this line is very thin, since the restoration of a lost organ itself makes a person more attractive. According to research by psychologists, up to 40% of reviews about plastic surgeons are left by women who have a family and lead an active lifestyle.

History of plastic surgery

Operations to change the appearance of a person in one form or another have existed since ancient times. Already before our era, surgeons took care of the beautiful appearance of the postoperative sutures, as there are records in the papyri. In India, the first surgeons corrected the shape of the nose using the skin on the cheeks or forehead.

For a long time, surgical changes in appearance were not practiced in Europe; until the 17th century, there are single descriptions of such operations. During the domination of the Inquisition, doctors were persecuted and persecuted for attempts to change the appearance of a person.

During the Renaissance, plastic surgery became a separate branch of medicine and acquired the status of "beauty surgery". Its founder is considered to be Gaspar Tagliakozzi from Italy. At the time of the wide spread of severe forms of syphilis, he developed a technique for restoring the nose.

Modern plastic surgery began to develop in the 19th century, when special instruments and surgical techniques were invented and developed. In addition, the advent of antiseptics has given wider scope for transplanting skin, cartilage and other tissues.

The intensive development of this industry began after the First World War, when many mutilated people appeared who needed not only to restore the lost functions of damaged parts of the body, but also to improve their appearance. It was during this period that many new effective techniques were developed, including maxillofacial surgery.

After the Second World War, methods of local anesthesia were improved, which made plastic surgery safer and more affordable.

The modern stage in the development of plastic surgery is distinguished by a rich selection of substitute materials and devices, as well as the possibility of performing operations using high-tech equipment.

Aesthetic operations performed by a plastic surgeon

The services of a plastic surgeon are most often used in order to improve the appearance of the body and face, prolong youth and preserve beauty. Sometimes, for this purpose, not one, but several sequential operations are carried out. These operations are classified by area of execution.

A plastic surgeon using a scalpel is able to correct the shape of the nose (rhinoplasty), lips (cheiloplasty), ears (otoplasty), eyebrows or chin (mentoplasty), tighten the skin of the forehead, face (front lifting) and neck (cervicoplasty) Blepharoplasty - an operative eyelid lift - gives the face a more youthful look. When fat is deposited in “problem” places (on the abdomen, waist, hips), plastic surgery, thanks to liposuction, makes it possible to make the body more slim.

Operations have been developed to rejuvenate the shape of the hands (brachioplasty), enlarge the buttocks or change their shape (gluteoplasty).

If a woman is not satisfied with the appearance of her breasts (for example, it is too small or large, or has lost its shape and sagging), then this problem can also be solved surgically. Operations to change the shape and size of a woman's breasts are called mammoplasty.

Patients give good reviews of plastic surgeons who know the hair transplant technique. This method of dealing with early baldness solves many psychological problems of people suffering from alopecia.

A separate branch of aesthetic surgery is plastic surgery of the external genital organs:

Vaginoplasty (vaginal plastic);
Hymenoplasty (hymen plastic);
Labioplasty (plastic surgery of the labia);
Phalloplasty (penile plastic).

Reconstructive surgery performed by a plastic surgeon

Reconstructive operations performed by plastic surgeons eliminate defects and deformations of organs and tissues, and restore their performance. Such operations are needed by patients who have received injuries after injuries, diseases, or with congenital pathology. Reconstructive surgeries radically change the quality of a person's life: they improve their socialization and return a sense of fullness of life.

After removal of the mammary glands along with a cancerous tumor, mammoplasty using a skin graft or breast prostheses allows a woman to rehabilitate after surgery and avoid many psychological problems.

Reconstructive surgery improves the appearance of people with cleft lip or cleft palate. These plastic surgeries are performed in childhood.

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