When one hears the word plastic surgery scenarios as someone trying to delay the effects of aging on people who want to change the sizes of their breasts, stomach and other body parts tend to come to mind. This isn’t always the case. Nowadays the word plastic has come to mean artificial to the modern world, but this is not where the procedure gets its name the name plastic came from a Greek word plastikos that means to mold or to shape. When someone mentions plastic surgery our minds tends to go to the procedures in the cosmetic surgery sector. However, the plastic surgeons have had a long history of performing the physical reconstructions such as skin grafts and the fairly sophisticated methods of suting that would prevent scarring. With the development skin technology in the techniques and the materials to be used a plastic surgeon can repair an even wider range of deformities on the human beings body, and now the cosmetic procedures have also been made easier with the continually developing equipments and more e comfortable and affordable than ever before.
Plastic surgery is a type of surgical procedure that will involve the appearance of the person or their ability to function. The plastic surgeons are trained to improve the patient’s appearance through the cosmetic procedures d the reconstructive ones.
RECONSTRUCTIVE PROCEDURES
The reconstructive procedures will work to correct any present defects either on the fasces or the body. This may include several factors such as the physicals birth defects such as the cleft lips, any ear deformities or the traumatic injuries that can be caused from burns or dog or other animal bites. Other cases are like having to rebuild a woman’s breast that has undergone a surgery for breast cancer.
COSMETIC PROCEDURES
This can also be referred to as the aesthetic procedures. They are aimed to alter the part of a body that the person is least satisfied with. There are the common cosmetic procedures such as making the breasts larger which is known as augmentation mammoplasty or making the breasts smaller also known as reduction mammoplasty. Other common procedures will include reshaping the nose known as rhinoplasty or removing the pockets of fat from the specific parts of the body commonly known as liposuction. Some of these cosmetic procedures are not necessarily surgical at all as people may think. There is the use of lasers too that help to remove the unwanted hair and sands the skin to improved the severe scarring that may be present.
IS PLASTIC SURGERY A GOOD IDEA?
The reconstructive procedures will significantly help in repairing the defects and problems on the human body. But the cosmetic surgery is not necessarily necessary. However, as with everything there are the right and wrong reasons to have the plastic surgery done on someone. One should be doing the surgery for the right reasons and should also be mature enough to handle and decide if surgery is the best choice for them. The surgery procedure will involve a lot of things such as the anesthesia, the wound healing and other serious risks that the patient should be capable of understanding and handling the stress that comes with the surgery. Therefore, teens that do it for petty reasons are greatly counseled to rethink their decisions. Some of the surgeons will not perform some procedures especially cosmetics on the teens until they are old enough and are done with growing.
Plastic surgery is not a decision made overnight and should not be rushed into. It should take some serious decision making as one finds out as much as they can about the specific procedure they want done on them. Once you have done your research and you have all the knowledge and information required for the specific procedure then you could decide if it is right for you.
Dr. Gregory H. Croll is the owner of his own practice, and the leading doctor for plastic surgery Columbia MO has to offer.