Reconstructive plastic surgery is done to correct functional impairments caused by traumatic injuries, burns, broken facial bones, birth defects, developmental abnormalities, infections, diseases and cancers or tumors. Reconstructive plastic surgery is usually performed to improve function, but can also be done to approximate a normal appearance.
The most common reconstructive plastic surgery are the removal of tumors, scar repair, laceration repair, hand surgery and breast reduction or breast. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the number of reconstructive breast reductions for women in 2007 increased 2 percent over the previous year. Breast reduction in men in 2007 also increased 7 percent. Other surgical procedures are also common reconstructive breast reconstruction after mastectomy, cleft lip, cleft palate, contracture surgery for burn survivors, and the creation of new external ear when congenitally absent.
Plastic surgeons using microsurgical tissue transfer in the coverage of a defect when no tissue is available. The ex of skin, muscle, bone, fat, or a combination of these can be eliminated from the body, they can move to another site in the body, and can be reconnected to a blood supply by suturing arteries and veins as small that they can be 1 to 2 mm in diameter.
By Mily
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