Plastic surgery doesn't have anything to do with plastic – synthetic polymer material, as commonly thought. This word has Greek roots and means “to shape”. There are two types of plastic surgery: reconstructive and cosmetic. The first one was known many centuries ago. History experts think that surgeons of ancient India performed such facial plastic surgery procedures as otoplasty (ear plastic surgery) and rhinoplasty (operations on nose). Reconstructive plastic surgery serves to correct birth defects, such as cleft palate, and to treat trauma after-effects. Cosmetic plastic surgery is made for aesthetic reasons. The most popular cosmetic plastic surgery procedures include breast surgery, abdominoplasty, hair transplantation, facelift and buttock augmentation.
More and more people are now open to the idea of getting plastic surgery done compared to a
decade ago. Some psychologists believe that plastic surgery has a favorable effect on human mind, others claim that those, who are voluntarily exposed to scalpel action, have serious psychological problems. Anyway the popularity of plastic surgery is growing day by day, and maybe very soon there won't be any really ugly person left.
The innovative plastic surgery techniques and methods include incision, chemosurgery, laser surgery, dermabraison, electrosurgery, excision and liposuction. Due to plastic surgery developments liposuction is practiced in such difficult areas as eyelids.
It is almost impossible to choose a good plastic surgery specialist in today's variety. Most of them have attractive advertising, but only a handle can offer really high quality of treatment. Certainly any passer-by is unlikely to successfully perform difficult procedures, however, there are still enough dilettantes in this field. The first criteria is whether the surgeon is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgeons and has hospitable privilege. As during the operation large areas of skin are replaced, all plastic surgeons are also skin specialists.
Becoming a part of popular culture, plastic surgery is mentioned in present-day books and movies. Thus the cynical protagonists of “Fight Club” used human fat for soap-boiling and sold it to liposuctioned rich people. According to “Men in Black” liposuction is an alien technology adapted by the terrestrial. That means that plastic surgery has spread far beyond the limits of our planet and people pursuing some aesthetic procedures do it not for banal personal reasons, but they are just trying to keep up to date. |
