Service Description
Plastic surgery is one of the oldest, and one of the newest surgical specialties. Plastic means "to form." It does not refer to "plastic" materials, although they may be used. Plastic surgery is concerned with the repair and reconstruction of lost, injured, and deformed body parts as a result of burns, cancer, trauma, and birth defects. Plastic surgery generally does not deal with viscera, but with the non visceral structures, viz. scalp, skull, external ear, face and facial bones, chest wall, abdominal wall, external genitalia, and extremities.
There is a common opinion about plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery. In fact, there are two general categories of plastic surgery, re-constructive surgery and cosmetic surgery. The former refers to rebuilding structures that were normal, but damaged by injury or disease. Examples include skin grafting for burns and repair of hand injuries. The latter refers to the attempts to improve the appearance of relatively normal structures, to beautify!
Plastic surgery covers a very wide field, and can be considered under the following clinical areas:
•Congenital
•Trauma & Burns
•Neoplasms
•Others areas
