History of Cosmetic/Plastic Surgery

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Plastic surgery is a medical specialty dealing with on the correction or restoring of external damage to the body. The word plastic comes from the Greek plastikos meaning to mold or to shape (Answers, 2010). Cosmetic surgery involves techniques to enhance the appearance through surgical and medical techniques. I will also investigate the most popular surgery procedures of the last couple years. Do you wonder how this type of surgery went from treating war wounds, burn victims, and children born with defects to breast enhancements and face-lifts? We will explore how Plastic surgery began and how it progressed through the centuries, to what we all know it as Cosmetic surgery. This essay
The top five reconstructive procedures were:
|Procedure |# Performed in 2007 |% Change from 2006 |
|Tumor removal |3.9 million |Down 1 percent |
|Laceration repair |286,000 |Down 9 percent |
|Scar revision |150,000 |Down 9 percent |
|Hand surgery |142,000 |Down 9 percent |
|Breast reduction |106,000 |Up 2 percent |

Minimally Invasive Cosmetic Procedures

There were 10.4 million minimally invasive procedures performed in 2008, up