There are many ways plastic surgeons use surgery to reconstruct areas of the body. These include skin grafting, where skin is taken from a part of the body and transferred or grafted to the area where replacement is needed. Another is skin flap surgery, wherein a tissue, along with its blood vessels is transferred to another part of the body. Tissue expansion, on the other hand, is a procedure where tissue surrounding the damaged area is made to grow extra skin to be used as replacement for the area the needs it. Other methods include creation of devices such as prosthetic limbs, vacuum closure and fat transfer, say, removing fat from the thigh and transferring it on the buttocks.
Conditions present at birth that can be corrected with plastic surgery include patients with lip or cleft palate, hypospadias, birth marks, abnormally shaped heads, small ears and webbed fingers, to name a few. With regard to cases where plastic surgeries are called for later in life, these include patients who have suffered from extensive burns, cancers, Bell’s palsy, trauma from accidents and animal bites, osteoarthiritis and carpal tunnel syndrome.
Despite the need and importance of plastic surgeries, there are also setbacks attributed to undergoing reconstruction. It is also a person’s own discretion if he or she wants to undergo plastic surgery, so long as it is not a matter of life and death. Before going under the knife for fat grafting or breast reconstruction, careful consideration should be made.
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