Tuesday, 12 March 2013

Introduction

In order to understand what is plastic surgery is all about we need to know about the definition first, so plastic surgery can be define as

“Surgery concerned with the repair, restoration, or improvement of lost, injured, defective, or misshapen body parts” – Webster’s Dictionary .

So basically plastic surgery were being carried out in India and the father of Surgery who is Sushruta give his first contribution to the field of plastics and cataract surgery in 6th century.

Usually we always heard about plastic surgery to make our face to look good and so on, but actually there are two type of plastic surgery . So for a surgery to make our face or appearance to look good are known as cosmetic surgery while the others one is known as reconstructive. This type of plastics surgery mostly to improve function due to impairment caused by burn, traumatic injuries such as fractures or congenital abnormalities example cleft palates . this type of plastic surgery also can be overlap with the cosmetic plastic surgery because it also can be done for better normal appearance.

~beauty is in the eye of beholder~

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