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Plastic surgery is the area of medicine that deals with reconstruction of damaged parts of the body. We are trained to reconstruct areas damaged by cancer, trauma or congenital deformity. The techniques and training used in reconstruction have evolved to rejuvenate and enhance “normal” patients with cosmetic procedures. The boundaries between cosmetic surgery and reconstruction are often blurred.
Some people age “well” and others look tired or "angry". Is a breast enlargement for a woman with very small breasts reconstructive or cosmetic? Is surgery on a child with "bat" ears, who is being teased in the playground, cosmetic or reconstructive? |
Unfortunately any doctor can call themselves a cosmetic surgeon and some even call themselves plastic surgeons. As a fully qualified plastic and reconstructive surgeon and Member of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons I have taken no short cuts in my training, therefore I will take no short cuts in your surgery.