Plastic Surgery
The term 'plastic' is derived from the Greek syllable 'plastikos' meaning 'mold' or 'give shape to'. Plastic surgery is a special branch of medicine that deals with curing or rectifying facial disfigurement, scarring or other anomalies in the physical features that are either congenital or accidental. Advancements in technology have broadened the scope of plastic surgery and today it is performed for a variety of cosmetic purposes like, face-lift, breast implantation, reduction, penile enlargement etc. The historic origin of plastic surgery is traced back to India (hundreds of years BC), where a text has references to what can be called as modern day rhinoplasty. Then in Italy during the sixteenth century Gasparo Tagliocozzi specialized techniques to treat facial disfigurement. He is also credited with the publication (1597) of the first comprehensive account of skin transplantation method in his work "De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem," [Alysa R. herman]. But plastic surgery, as a specialist branch of medicine became prominent only during the World War 1 period where the exigencies of the wartime situation and the horribly mutilated faces of thousands of soldiers demanded new methods of treatment and 'maxillofacial surgery' evolved. [Elizabeth Haiken]
History of Modern Plastic Surgery
Plastic surgery evolved from a combined effort of French, British and American surgeons who were rendering their wartime services. Sir Harold Gilles a new Zealand-based octolaryngologist, Vilray Blair, an orthopedic surgeon, Robert Ivy, a surgeon from Philadelphia, Lee Cohen, again an octolaryngologist from America and Varaztad Kazangian, a dental specialist from the Massachusetts hospital are generally acknowledged as the forefathers of modern day plastic surgery. During the battle of Somme in 1916 Harold Gilles and Varaztad Kazangian performed maxillofacial surgery for more than 2000 wounded British soldiers. Varaztad Kazangian...
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