History of Plastic Surgery

History of Plastic Surgery

When most people use the term Plastic Surgery, they more often than not use it in reference to cosmetic surgery. Few people actually stop to think that Plastic Surgery covers a far wider range of surgical procedures and that cosmetic surgery is only one type of surgery related to Plastic Surgery. The full scope of Plastic Surgery is quite wide if one stops to think about it and more often than not, is related to, and, plays a fundamental role in conjunction with other fields of medicine and surgical procedures pertaining to the field of general surgery.

Plastic Surgery is basically concerned with the reconstruction of the surface of the body whether that has to do with the reconstruction of facial or body disfigurations that are either congenital in nature or, acquired due to accidents or illness for example, cancer related disfigurations.

Although Plastic Surgery goes as far back as Ancient Egypt the first physicians who actually placed a more scientific scope in the field of Plastic Surgery and, to be more precise, cosmetic surgery were two Sicilians Gustav and Antonio Branka . Father and son, in 1400, they outlined the basic guidelines which plastic surgeons should follow when undertaking reconstructive nose surgery. However, the first to ever create a center for Plastic Surgery and to take the first steps to making Plastic Surgery an equally accepted field of medicine was another Italian, Taliakosi.

However, it was not until after World War I that Plastic Surgery developed its full scope of use. This was due to the enormous amount of facial and body disfigurations which either resulted in Plastic Surgery being undertaken for aesthetic reasons, to regain functional abilities or, more often than not, for both.

From then on and up until today, Plastic Surgery continues to play an ever increasingly important role as a field of medicine in today's' society either on its own when referring to simple cosmetic surgery or as part of, and in relation to other fields of surgical specialties.

By Charles Kassotis
Article Source: EzineArticles.com

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Obviously, something had gone wrong ! It all started out in 2006, when Vishal Thakkar, made the decision it was time for a big change, to do something that will mark permanently : consequently the New Yorker went through a cosmetic surgery, with whom he would have liked lightly touch his nose.

Vishal Thakkar had just divorced his wife when he decided to change his life, starting from the nose from that time to the present he had to submit to as many as eight surgeries ! The man, a resident of Tulsa, began to suffer respiratory system problems since after the first surgical operation.

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The number of cosmetic surgeries increases more rapidly with each passing year in the United States. From breast implants, improvements to the lifting of the lip and butt implants also, Americans spend millions of dollars to achieve physical perfection through cosmetic surgery. But even if these types of surgeries are popular, there can be disastrous consequences if the proper research is not done on cosmetic surgeons and procedures they perform. Read on to find out more about cosmetic surgery gone wrong.

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cosmetic surgery: Come before the body or the soul?

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When we talk about cosmetic surgery very often, even unintentionally, we imagine the human body in its physicality. Its shape, its limitations and possible defects. Then imagine the hand of the surgeon with his scalpel that goes to work on this body as if it were a sculpture, in order to make it perfect or at least better.

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Generally this is the idea that almost all of us have cosmetic surgery. And I do not mean that this idea does not correspond to reality ... I believe that only reappresenti only a partial perspective on it.

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Plastic surgery has become an obsession to the point that the girl next door, the starlets in search of fame and celebrity established, no one seems exempt from the those. 

Unfortunately the result is not always what you want or imagined : in fact, in many cases, especially when interventions are particularly invasive or more than one, the would-be beautiful/beautiful turns into a grotesque mask, with the facial features altered to limits humanly conceivable and a body with breasts or biceps gigantic, butts disturbing shapes and forms that retain little of the naturalness of the original physical and approach instead to those of a doll ( as in the case of Barbie and Ken 'true' ). Can not ? 

Here is a gallery of images that collects the worst surgery ever /when plastic surgery gone wrong - or at least a good part - which shows that sometimes exceeds reality (unfortunately too much) imagination.

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