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Plastic surgery
The plastic surgery totals thousand-years experience. According to the records, made by ancient Egyptians in the third millennium BC, the Egyptian doctors were very accurate in suture after operations on the person. The first records in Ancient China has been made made on bones (14 century BC) in which were mentioned facts of carrying out of operations on a nose (rhinoplasty). Ancient china healer Bjan Tsjue (V century BC) has left documents in which he described operations on ears. The Egyptian mummy of the boy is stored in the London museum (II millennium BC). The nose and ears of mummy are made of special pitches. It testifies that artificial materials in surgery were applied in an extreme antiquity. The Pliny-junior (23/24-79 AD) described a liposuction, as a technique of reduction of excess weight of the consul’s son Apronijsky.
Today in the developed countries the esthetic surgery is the major area of medicine. According to statistics countries which spend the greatest quantity of plastic operations are: the USA, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Spain, Germany. According to the American Association of the cosmetic surgeons, the most popular operations today is mammoplasty (increase, reduction or reconstruction of a breast, plastic of nipples), a liposuction (elimination of fatty adjournment) and rhinoplasty (change the form of a nose). It is interesting that 15 % of all operations are man's plastic surgery, and more often men change the form of a nose or get rid of superfluous fat. All operations in plastic surgery are divided into three groups:
Operations on the person, operations on a mammary gland and operation on a body.
The representation esthetics about beauty, concerns literally to any part of a body. Connection between beautiful appearance of the person and its success in love and career is obvious and consequently aspiration to look more attractive is clearly and naturally. The problem to choose the most effective technique and operation. The important factor for decision-making on plastic surgery is patient’s knowledge about operation, anesthesia, the postoperative period. Therefore on consultation, together with the patient, we in details assort subtleties of this or that operation, a kind and the form of cuts, we define necessity of additional procedures.
