Plastic surgery can be a positive life-changing experience

Thursday May 8, 2008 ins: Cosmetic Surgery News Tag(s):

Dr. Kenneth Dickie, a veteran plastic surgeon, believes that plastic surgery can become a positive life-changing experience. He talked before the members of the Rotary Club of Freeport and discussed about the benefits of plastic surgery in times of war, specifically, World War 1, when injured soldiers would return home with battle scars and physical defects.

Dr. Dickie said that doctors saw many persons coming in with disfiguring wounds, especially to the face. Then came out the necessity for reconstruction and repair --- the birth of plastic surgery.

"And this is where we saw so many of the people that may have had gunshot wounds to the face and things of that nature and this is where plastic surgery really began coming into its own," Dickie added.

When the war was over, major improvements on the techniques and methods of the field have been taking place, and this includes the delivery of plastic surgery services to the masses who are aching to have their imperfections straightened out.

Techniques such as skin grafting, micro surgery, and pre-tissue transfers are new developments in cosmetic surgery. These are things that were not possible in the past. And these new methods have paved the way for more types of repairs that have become possible.

"Plastic surgeons started to see a lot more burn patients and children born with congenital disease and accident victims and so our specialty started to expand in areas where any form of reconstruction or repairs may have been required," Dickie stressed.

In the case of children being born with facial deformities such as cleft-lips, plastic surgery has been a tremendous help. "There are now certain techniques where foetuses can be diagnosed with certain defects before birth and in that case some repair work can be carried out without interfering with the pregnancy," Dickie said.

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