Plastic surgery
Cosmetic Surgery - Plastic Surgery - Aesthetic Medicine - Reconstructive Surgery
Plastic surgery is the surgery of the skin and soft tissue.
Plastic surgery, a recognized surgical speciality, encompasses
reconstructive or restorative (true plastic) surgery and plastic
surgery. We can say that plastic surgery will reconstruct beauty that
has disappeared. Any reconstructive surgery has an aesthetic dimension
and any aesthetic surgery is also reconstructive. The whole thing is
managed by highly qualified surgeons who have undertaken years of study
and practice to obtaining their qualifications.
In 1989, aesthetic surgery was officially included in the qualifications
for reconstructive plastic surgery. Plastic surgery has become:
plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery.
Purely plastic surgery is for patients who suffer from major deformities
(mammary hypertrophy, prominent ears, deformities of the belly with
the presence of a large cutaneous-fatty apron, etc.). These are
inconvenient for everyday life but do not lead to significant
functional impairment.
Like all surgical procedures, plastic surgery carries risks, and the law
requires the practitioner to inform the patient of all of them. There
are therapeutic and anaesthetic risks, the risk of bleeding, infection
and scarring and risks associated with various implants which are
specific to each of them.
It is essential that the patient is very attentive to the qualifications of the plastic surgeon that is to treat him/her.