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By Jamal D White


Plastic surgery has become a common thing in the world today. So many cases relating to plastic surgical procedures have emerged due to the demand for the service. It is advisable to go for some fact-finding mission before engaging in anything regarding plastic surgery.

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.

Many people believe that plastic surgery is one of the oldest forms of surgeries to be performed on humans. Craniotomy was one of the first forms of plastic surgery, dating back to 10000 BC. Reconstructive surgery dates back to 3000 BC in India, whereby they performed skin grafting on some parts of the body such as, the nose, ears and even hands.

Surgeons who took part in the World War One, established The American Association of Plastic surgery and were vibrant in fighting to stop unregulated plastic surgery procedures. The innovations on plastic surgery began during World War, as the number injured people were huge. A need arose to see soldiers who had damaged part of their bodies get back to their former or near normal. This has led to new developments and innovations on plastic surgery to date.

Nose reshaping and breast augmentation are the most common types of plastic surgery performed world over. Ninety percent of all the plastic surgeries performed in the world involve women, while men account for only ten percent. This is because plastic surgery has evolved more from a medical procedure to a physical one of aesthetics.

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.

There is a big difference between certification of a cosmetic surgery and that of a plastic surgery. A plastic surgeon has to undergo a post-graduate training before certification while a cosmetic surgeon only needs to under-go residency training to be certified. This is to show that there is a big distinction in the two almost similar fields that are quite often mis-interpreted. Knowing this will enable you look for the appropriate professional for whatever service you are looking for.




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