Plastic Surgery Can Reconstruct Your Out Of Shape Body Part

April 21, 2010 - PRLog -- Plastic surgery is a medical specialty concerned with the correction or restoration of form and function. While famous for aesthetic surgery, plastic surgery also includes many types of reconstructive surgery, hand surgery, microsurgery, and the treatment of burns.  People often confuse it with cosmetic surgery. These are two different terms and are not synonyms.

Cosmetic surgery is a subset of Plastic surgery. Cosmetic surgery involves taking a body part and enhances its features in physical terms. For example: if a woman is in his fifties  has drooped breasts. She can go for breast lift which is a cosmetic surgery.  Females feel the need for breast lift surgery in order to look graceful and a complete woman. Due to the loss of skin elasticity, gravity and other factors such as weight loss, pregnancy and breast-feeding, the shape and firmness of the breasts get affected.

Similarly, there are many other types of cosmetic surgeries like: nose surgery, otoplasty, tummy tuck, blepharoplasty, etc. When it comes to plastic surgery, it is not only concerned about the beautification of the body part, it is more concerned about its reconstruction.  

This will become clear with an appropriate example of plastic surgery. If an individual has burnt his face and as a result, got burn marks on his face. He will go to a certified plastic surgeon, who is an expert in plastic facial surgery. After examining the face burns, the surgeon will suggest the patient for certain measures that has to be taken before the surgery could take place.

After adhering to the suggestive measures, the plastic surgeon will take a body part that is not within a range of normal appearance, and would try to make it look more normal.  The repair of a cleft lip or the straightening of a nose that has been broken is usually considered reconstructive plastic surgery, not cosmetic surgery, because the body part that is being improved didn't start out in a range of normal appearance; rather, it's being brought back to a normal appearance.

If you have a rhinoplasty or nose job, you can say that you had cosmetic surgery, or you can accurately say that you had plastic surgery. Therefore, whether it is beautification or reconstruction, plastic surgeon can help you out.

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All our Plastic Surgeons are members of the Peruvian Association of Cosmetic Surgery and they have also made specializations in many different places of the world such as Brazil, USA, and Argentina.