There is written evidence, which states clearly that plastic surgery of the face was done more than four thousand years back. Skin grafts were used even in 800 B.C for reconstructive surgery. Perhaps the origins of plastic surgery lie in the fact that punishment meted out by kings and masters in the old days was by cutting off an ear or nose or fingers or toes as punishment and these had to be reconstructed for proper use by the victims. A severed ear may have been grafted onto the body, or a cut finger might have been sutured back and hereby lay the beginnings of plastic surgery.

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People have always been enamored by beauty and everyone would like to be beautiful, plastic surgery had ready patients down the ages. After a glorious beginning, plastic surgery seems to have been put on the shelf as its progress was very slow over the next few hundreds of years. It was only in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries that these procedures forged ahead.

Medical history records that Dr John Peter Mettauer born in Virginia in 1787 was the first plastic surgeon of the US. He performed cleft lip and palate operation using his own instruments in 1827.

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The horrors of war saw victims with faces and limbs torn off by bomb blasts. This led to a fast development of plastic surgery in the 1800s and 1900s. After World War I there were many shattered faces, blown of noses, gaping wounds and the like which had to be filled and reconstructed by plastic surgery. Doctors in Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Austria, Hungary and other places devoted themselves to restoring the blown of parts of the human body.

The word plastic in plastic surgery means mold or give form in Greek, from the word ‘plastikos’ and does not mean artificial in any sense of the term. Plastic surgery includes both aesthetic or cosmetic surgery and reconstructive surgery. Plastic surgery methods made rapid progress and by the end of the last century great progress was made and more and more people were opting for plastic surgery. The discovery of silicone made implants safer and better. Invention of newer methods of restructuring and the invention of many medicines has made plastic surgery reach the common man who now has the option to go in for cosmetic purposes as well.

The rapid strides are continuing and every year newer methods are being invented making more people to go voluntarily under the surgeon’s scalpel.

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