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Plastic Surgery

Plastic Surgery Anyone? Man kind’s essential nature entails self-improvement and perfection. Because human beings have always sought out self-fulfillment through self-improvement, plastic surgery may be one of the world’s oldest hearing arts. According to the Plastic Surgery Information Service, there is written medical evidence that cites medical treatment for facial injuries for over 4000 years. Physicians n ancient India were utilizing skin grafts for reconstructive work as early as 800 BC. Furthermore, the driving force behind most plastic surgery development was to repair awful and quite serious war injuries in the 1900’s. There were shattered jaws and blown off noses which required innovative restorative procedures. There was much good news to report to the American people in the post –war days of the 1950’s. As with other areas of science and medicine, plastic surgery discoveries were happening at break-neck speeds, often derived from innovations tested in hospitals of...

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