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Sunday, December 28, 2014

Important Facts About Plastic Surgery

By Jamal D White


Lately, plastic surgery has become a household name, thanks to the many issues arising on topics related to plastic surgery procedures. Presently, cosmetic surgery and non-surgical procedures have become so much in demand across the globe. Before you give plastic surgery a second thought, it is good that you make sure you get the right information regarding plastic surgery.

In order to have you enlightened, some surgeons and physicians have put up facts that are considered more accurate to assist you make an informed decision when with regards to plastic surgery. These facts have been accepted across societies of surgeons and other medical practitioners. The facts help in enlightening against mis-information and myths about plastic surgery. So much of wrong facts have been bandied around in regard to plastic surgery.

Far away from the general belief that that plastic surgery is the use of plastics. The genesis of the word plastic surgery can be traced back to time in ancient Greek whereby the word comes from a Greek word plastikos meaning to shape up and surgery from Khirourgos meaning crafting using the hands. This gives an insight to the common belief that it is all about putting plastics in the body.

Many people believe that plastic surgery is one of the oldest forms of surgeries to be performed on humans. Craniotomy was one of the first forms of plastic surgery, dating back to 10000 BC. Reconstructive surgery dates back to 3000 BC in India, whereby they performed skin grafting on some parts of the body such as, the nose, ears and even hands.

During the world war, surgeons who took part in treating the injured victims of war, ended up in the post-war forming The American Association of Plastic Surgery and were significant in the move against ending unregulated plastic surgery practices. Advancements on plastic surgery started after World War arising from many disfigured cases of injured people from the war. This has continued with more developments being done most recently.

A total of about 10 % of the people who undergo plastic surgery account for men, while women account for 90% of the people who demand these services. Nose reshaping and augmentation of the breasts are the most popular forms of plastic surgery witnessed today.

President Bill Clinton put a bill in the United States stating that plastic surgery be covered under an insurance policy, forward. This was a great relieve to both the plastic surgeons and their patients. The bill also covered breast augmentation for achieving symmetry between two breasts.

Cosmetic surgery and plastic surgery both have different practice goals, founded on a specific set of procedures. It states that the procedure of certifying a cosmetic surgeon and that of plastic surgeon must be distinct and different. Plastic surgery training is completed through a post-graduate program while on the other hand cosmetic surgery training is completed after residency training.




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