What kinds of plastic surgery can be divided into?

Plastic surgery mainly deals with skin, muscle and bone trauma, diseases, congenital or acquired defects and deformities of tissues or organs. Treatment includes repair and reconstruction. Autotransplantation of various tissues can be performed through surgery, and allogenic tissues or tissue substitutes can be used to repair tissue defects or deformities caused by various reasons, so as to improve or restore physiological functions and appearance.

Plastic surgery can be divided into five categories.

1, burn plastic surgery

Treatment and reconstruction of appearance or dysfunction caused by scar and deformity after burn.

2. Craniomaxillofacial surgery

Treatment and reconstruction of facial trauma, facial fracture, cleft lip and palate and other congenital facial deformities.

3. Hand surgery

Hand trauma, congenital malformation, replantation of severed limbs, micro-flap transplantation, etc.

4. Microsurgery

It is a process of anastomosis and reconstruction of tiny blood vessels and nerves by using microsurgical technology and operating microscope or magnifying glass.

5. Cosmetic plastic surgery

It is an aesthetic correction and remodeling of the human body with normal anatomical structure and physiological function.

Plastic surgery is the youngest branch of surgery. Of course, people who love beauty are looking for plastic surgery, even ordinary people may be related to plastic surgery, because it covers a wide range, from Dot mole to scar removal to microscopic replantation of broken hands and feet, all of which belong to the field of plastic surgery.