Crucial Facts To Note Regarding Plastic Surgery

By Jamal D White


Before you embark on a mission to have that facelift in the name of plastic surgery, it is of much importance to gather the right facts on the very issue. There is a high rise in the number of cases of people seeking plastic surgery services. It is so popular in the world today and yet unpopular at the same time in equal measure.

For the sake of consumer information and the public some doctors have come up with informative facts to assist in eliminating much of the hearsays about plastic surgery. The information has been generally welcomed across the medical field and society in general. People are now learning about plastic surgery concerning the pre-cautions, the effects and the advantages and how to go about it in terms of decision-making.

The origin of the word plastic surgery can put one who has been misunderstanding it, distant from the belief that plastic surgery is nothing but dealing with plastics on the human body. The word plastic in plastic surgery comes from a Greek word plastikos simply meaning to mould or to shape. The word surgery transcends from another Greek word Khirourgos, which means handwork. This helps you understand that the term does not necessarily have to imply the use of plastics.

Plastic surgery is the oldest method of all surgeries to have ever been performed since time in memorial. The first type of plastic surgery, dating back to 1000 BC In the Peruvian Times. Indians on the other hand practiced reconstructive surgery on victims who lost part of their body organs, such as the nose, ears or even those whose skin was damaged.

During the world war, surgeons who took part in treating the injured victims of war, ended up in the post-war forming The American Association of Plastic Surgery and were significant in the move against ending unregulated plastic surgery practices. Advancements on plastic surgery started after World War arising from many disfigured cases of injured people from the war. This has continued with more developments being done most recently.

A total of about 10 % of the people who undergo plastic surgery account for men, while women account for 90% of the people who demand these services. Nose reshaping and augmentation of the breasts are the most popular forms of plastic surgery witnessed today.

The former U.S. president Bill Clinton stated through a bill that plastic surgery be covered under an insurance policy. This came to the much relieve of many plastic surgeons and to many patients of the same, who in event got covered just in case the surgery went wrong. The bill also covered breast augmentation in achieving symmetry between two breasts.

It is good to note that there is a distinction in the certification of a cosmetic surgery and that of a plastic surgery. Plastic surgeons have to undergo a post-graduate training before certifications while a cosmetic surgeon under-goes residency training to be certified. It proves a point in distinguishing between the two practices.




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