Have you ever heard about the cosmetic surgery? Is it different from the plastic surgery? What’s the difference?

They are exactly different. The difference is based on it patients’ reason in doing these surgery.

chirurgia plastica is a constructive or reconstructive medical action that constructs the skin or body structure. It consists in reconstructive intervention such as post-mastectomy breast reconstruction, post-traumatic rhinoseptoplasty, mastoplastica additiva to repair gynaecomastia, post-melanoma and skin tumor reconstruction, etc. It aimed to restore the pre-existent physical integrity that has been seriously impaired by various events.

Sometimes some events like road accidents, industrial injuries, tumors, etc can change one’s skin or body structure. Here’s the time when the plastic surgery is needed. This kind of surgery helps the patients to get ideal or normal body back through remove the patient’s physical defect which caused by those events. Example is skin damage caused by the burnt accident. It is considered as important, due to the patient’s physical, mental and social well-doing. The patients will not be confident when they aware of his or her skin defect. The plastic surgery gives the patient’s confident back.

Meanwhile the cosmetic surgery is corrective medical action that consists in corrective intervention such as rhinoplasty, otoplasty, Settoplastica, face-lift, Mastopessi, septoplasty, and liposuzione and, etc. It is aimed to move patient’s natural physical defect and make its appearance better. This kind of surgery helps the patients to recreate those perfect shapes of body that she or he wants to achieve. A person with wide nose, down breasts and chink eyes can change their natural nose, breasts, eyes and many other part of body to be better to look.

Both plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery are fulfilled a therapeutic function, as long as it preserves people’s health. So, it has to be done in the right procedure to give best result.