Plastic Surgery For Reconstruction of Bodies And Lives

Nov 30
08:44

2010

Andrew Stratton

Andrew Stratton

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Plastic surgery is more than just a beautification procedure for some people. It helps seriously injured and disfigured men and women restore their bodies.

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Plastic surgery is more than just a beautification procedure for some people. It helps seriously injured and disfigured people restore their bodies.

Cosmetic surgeons’ offices are filled with people looking to improve their looks. They are beautiful people who want to be more beautiful or regular looking people trying to look less regular. They have breast implants and face lifts and tummy tucks to speed up progress on getting fit or to slow down aging. They are by and large the consumers of plastic surgery. There is however another group of people who are helped in ways that are leaps and bounds more fulfilling than the people looking for basic aesthetic improvement. People who have serious injuries and burns or congenital defects should look to plastic surgery to regain some semblance of normalcy.

People with horrible facial or skin burns are often helped immensely by the work of a cosmetic surgeon. Plastic surgery offers a number of ways to repair and reduce heavy scarring. Dermabrasion can smooth out rough skin. Reconstruction can repair features that have been lost. It is possible to rebuild an ear or a nose and it is even possible to replace a lost eyelid. In fact one of the best people to call in immediately after serious burns is a cosmetic surgeon. They will not be able to remedy problems after they have healed but they will be able to minimize scarring during treatment.

Also helped vastly by plastic surgery are women who have lost both of their breasts due to cancer. The breasts are the most overtly feminine part of any woman and there is a large amount of psychological pain tied up in the physical loss of them. Doctors today can rebuild and reshape the body in ways now where the breasts can look like they did before the surgery. Utilizing pre-operation photos they can attempt to get the body back to the way it was. Although this does not remove the trauma of going through something like this it is a healing step toward feeling whole again for some women.

The help of cosmetic surgery can vastly aid even more minor injuries. When a broken nose doesn’t heal right often it needs to be reset and reshaped. This is easily done through a medical procedure. The same is true of other facial bones that need to be repaired after they have been fractured. These injuries often occur after even minor car accidents but it is not necessary to have these incidents permanently disfigure someone.

Although a lot of aesthetic benefit can be gained from cosmetic procedures there are people infinitely more healed by the work of a surgeon. He can recreate a face or body part. He can restore natural appearance to skin and he can repair lives.