Reconstructive surgery
Cosmetic Surgery - Plastic Surgery - Aesthetic Medicine - Reconstructive Surgery
Reconstructive surgery is surgery to repair the body following destructive diseases, birth defects or unintentional injuries.
The act of reconstructive surgery includes an aesthetic dimension. In
the case of breast reconstruction after surgical removal following
cancer, the patient will use restorative or reconstructive surgery, but
the reconstructed breast must have a nice shape and even look
beautiful. .
In reconstructive surgery, the act of repair is also a gesture of
aesthetic surgery; for the repair will be carried out to be the best if
not the most aesthetic it can be using an identical technique. .
Reconstructive or restorative surgery as such, acquired individual
characteristics in France in the 1960s. Restorative or reconstructive
surgery is covered by social security.
Currently, following breast cancer, breast reconstruction is becoming
more common and in particular, more effective. Depending on the disease
to be treated, the services provided become specialised (hand surgery,
surgery on burn injuries, orthopaedic and trauma surgery,
maxillofacial surgery, etc.).
The range of repair techniques is wide; it will vary, among other
techniques, from grafts and flaps to microsurgical transplantation on
the limbs. We can rebuild almost all parts of the body. Parallel
developments in the more and more effective control of immune
mechanisms allow surgical skills to be enhanced.
Like all surgical procedures, aesthetic 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.