A medical specialty concerned with corrective, restorative, or reparative surgery for restoring or improving or repairing deformed or mutilated parts of the body.
Surgical operations performed to reconstruct, repair, or alter skin and associated tissue, especially when it has been damaged by injury or disease, such as burns or cancer, or is deformed because of congenital disorders, such as cleft lip and palate or hypospadias; in adults, it often is performed to reverse the effects of the aging process. In attempting to correct serious damage, plastic surgeons may use a variety of skin grafts, sometimes drawn from elsewhere on the patient’s own body, and sometimes must also deal with the bony structures underneath, as when a child has substantial skull deformities and requires craniofacial (skull and face) or maxillofacial (upper jaw, nose, and cheek) reconstructive surgery. The aim in general is to give the person as natural and normal a look as possible. Plastic surgery performed for appearance’s sake alone, such as rhinoplasty (to alter the nose) or otoplasty (to flatten the ears), is generally termed cosmetic surgery.
That branch of surgery concerned with the alteration, reconstruction, and replacement of body parts to correct a structural or cosmetic defect. Common plastic surgery procedures include the repair of harelips and cleft palate, rhinoplasty, rhytidoplasty, the reconstruction of body parts destroyed by injury, and skin grafting.
Any operation that repairs, restores, or improves parts of the body; the surgical specialty that includes both cosmetic surgery and reconstructive surgery. A plastic surgeon is a physician who specializes in plastic surgery.
A branch of surgery dealing with the reconstruction of deformed or damaged parts of the body. It also includes the replacement of parts of the body that have been lost. If performed simply to improve appearances plastic surgery is called cosmetic surgery, but most such surgery involves the treatment and repair of burns or accidents and the correction of congenital defects, such as harelip and cleft palate.
Surgery for the repair or restoration of defective or missing structures, frequently involving the transfer of tissue from one part to another and sometimes including the use of prosthetic materials.
Surgical procedures conducted to restore or rebuild skin and tissue that has suffered damage, loss, deformity, or age-related changes. (Procedures primarily undertaken to enhance the appearance of a person without any underlying medical necessity are termed as cosmetic surgery.)
Plastic surgery is frequently utilized to address damage resulting from extensive burns, injuries, cancer, or specific procedures like mastectomy (breast tissue removal). Certain congenital conditions might also necessitate plastic surgery, such as cleft lip and palate, hypospadias (a penile defect), and imperforate anus.
Procedures employed within plastic surgery encompass skin grafts, skin flaps, and Z-plasty, which can be integrated with implants or bone grafts.
The correction of flaws, often involving the transfer of tissue, bone, or skin from one area of the body to another.