Plastic surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on improving a person’s appearance as well as reconstructing deformities of the face and body caused by illness, accident, or congenital anomalies. It aims to restore function and looks as near to normal as possible.

Plastic surgery improves as well as restores both functionality and beauty. Surgery can be performed on any portion of the body, except the central nervous system. The most common areas of surgery include:

• Scars, birthmarks, burns, tattoo removal and skin
• Maxillofacial surgery
• Deformed ears, cleft lip, cleft palate, and congenital malformations.

Types of Plastic Surgeries

Reconstructive surgeries are used to repair deformities in the face or body. Physical birth defects such as cleft lips and palates and ear deformities, traumatic injuries such as dog bites or burns, and the aftermath of illness treatments such as reconstructing a woman’s breast following breast cancer surgery are examples.

Cosmetic surgeries alter a person’s disliked body parts. Common cosmetic treatments include increasing breast (augmentation mammoplasty) or reducing breast size (reduction mammoplasty), removing fat pockets from specific areas of the body (liposuction) and contouring the nose (rhinoplasty). 

Techniques of Plastic Surgery

The following are some techniques utilized in plastic surgery :

Skin Flap Surgery
A part of the tissue from one region of the body is moved to another, keeping the blood vessels intact that keep it alive.

Skin Grafts
Skin grafting is the process where healthy skin is extracted from an unaffected area of the body and utilised to replace missing or damaged skin.

Tissue expansion
Where the surrounding tissue is stretched to allow the body to “generate” more skin that can later be used to assist repairs the surrounding area.

Vacuum closure
Suction is applied to a wound via a sterile piece of gauze or foam in order to draw out fluid and promote healing.

Fat transfer or grafting
When fat is taken from one place and re-introduced into another part, usually to address the unevenness.

With their fully equipped infrastructure, the team of experienced surgeons and doctors at Sanjay Hospital eases the process of a speedy recovery.