What is Reconstructive Surgery?
Reconstructive surgery is to treat aesthetically or functionally damaged body structures through congenital defects, developmental abnormalities, trauma, cancer, tumors or disease. It is usually done to improve function and capacity, but can also be done to achieve a more conventional appearance of the structure affected.
1. Developmental abnormalities: – Developmental defects use a wide variety of reconstructive procedures, plastic surgeons patch holes, and repair damage mainly by tissue transfer from one part of the body to another.
2. Birth Defects: – Child with cleft lip or cleft palate will likely benefit most from reconstructive plastic surgery procedures and kept low-risk and manageable by staggered sessions over weeks or months with a thorough birth defect planning and diagnosis.
3. Trauma: – In trauma, plastic and reconstructive surgeries, especially when tissue is lost, with a multidisciplinary approach, plays a key function in the reconstruction of the head and neck, limbs and scrotum.
4. Tumors and disease: – Reconstructive surgery is all about people being repaired and function restored. It is used to restore and reshape body structures caused by birth defects, malformations of growth, damage and injuries, infections, tumors, and diseased conditions.
What is Cosmetic Surgery?
Cosmetic Surgery in India is a unique medical discipline that focuses on surgery and medical techniques on the improvement of appearance. Cosmetic operation on all the areas of head, neck, and body can be performed.
1. Liposuction: – Liposuction is a surgical procedure that uses suction methods to remove fat from different areas of the body, such as the breast, chest, thighs, arms or back. These areas also come to shape liposuction. Other liposuction names include lipoplasty as well as body contouring.
2. Tummy Tuck: – This surgery flattens the abdomen by taking away additional fat and skin and tighten your abdominal wall muscles. It isn’t like liposuction, but a tummy tuck can also be combined with liposuction.
3. Laser Hair Removal: – Laser Hair Removal is one of the most common cosmetic methods all over the world. The light it takes into hair follicles is highly concentrated. The pigment absorbs light in the follicles, this kills the hairs.
4. Injectable Fillers: – It is an injected soft tissue filler that can be filled with facial wrinkles, provides face volume and increases face characteristics at different depths: restoring the appearance of the filler. The majority of wrinkles are temporary because they are absorbed by the body eventually.
5. Facial Surgeries: – Facial surgeries include facelift, brow lift, and cheek lift.
a. Facelift: – Facelift surgery is generally performed as an outpatient procedure. Local anesthetics and sedatives or general anesthesia may be involved.
b. Brow lift: – A brow lift is a cosmetic procedure for raising the brows, also known as a forehead lift or front rejuvenation.
c. Cheek lift: – An incision is a minimally invasive procedure and can usually be made in the lower eyelid, in the high gum areas or in the hairline by inserting the incisions.
When does Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery Overlap?
Reconstructive surgery in India overlaps with cosmetic surgery as well, as they follow many of the same basic surgical concepts. Depending on the type of plastic surgery performed, maximizing the result of cosmetic treatment should always be the end goal.
1. Mastectomy: – This includes the surgeon removing a tumor and the surrounding tissue, but generally leaving the breasts intact. Skin sparing mastectomy, this newer procedure includes the preservation of the skin of the breast and the reconstruction of a more natural look.
2. Rhinoplasty: – The wounds inside or below the nostrils will be covered with dissolvable stitches. After a rhinoplasty reduction or raise, dissolvable stitches will close the cuts inside or between nostrils.
3. Otoplasty: – Ear pinning is one form of otoplasty surgery, which is visible sections of the ear on the outside. Otoplasty can reconstruct absent, malfunctioning or damaged ears or reduce the size of large ears.
4. Skin graft: – Cosmetic surgery and reconstructive skin graft is one of the most important techniques. A composite graft is a small, cartilage or other fabric-containing plastic graft.
5. Blepharoplasty: – Blepharoplasty is a procedure that removes, redrew or sculpts the skin of the eyelid, the muscle of the orbicularis and the orbital fat, rejuvenates the appearance of the patient and corrects any functional defects.
6. Z-plasty (for webbed fingers or toes): – This is a digital malformation in which adjacent fingers/ toes are webbed because they do not separate during the development of the limbs.
Reconstructive surgery in India will restore the function and normal appearance of birth defects, trauma and medical conditions, including cancer and proper deformities. Cosmetic surgery in India is done to improve the overall appearance of cosmetics by reshaping and modifying human anatomy to make it look more appealing.