Plastic and aesthetic surgery, through functional or aesthetic reconstruction, helps the patient to live better in his body.
Two sides of the same specialty
Plastic surgery seeks to restore the shape and if possible the function of an injured tissue, for example the reconstruction of a breast, ear or nose after their removal due to cancer or following trauma (amputation). Plastic surgery techniques can also be used on the whole body to close wounds such as ulcers, dilapidated wounds after trauma, extensive skin cancers.
Cosmetic surgery is a development of reconstructive surgery. She refines her techniques to, either modify a shape that displeases (saddlebags, protruding ears, breast hypotrophy), or restore an appearance that has changed over time such as a relaxation of the abdominal wall after childbirth or significant weight loss, breast involution (ptosis and decrease in volume) of the breasts after breastfeeding, sagging skin of the face or eyelids
Some of the interventions of the second type can be delayed by non-surgical techniques, which allows the plastic surgeon to propose various treatments, of which he will explain the advantages, disadvantages and especially the limits so that the patient can be, in the long term, in harmony with his body.
