Introduction
Plastic surgery is written as plastic & reconstructive surgery in English, which represents two major branches of plastic surgery. Specialties of plastic surgery are congenital malformations, tumor, facial trauma, hand trauma and reconstruction, cosmetic surgery, burn and others. Congenital malformation includes skull deformity, cleft lip or cleft palate, syndactyly or tongue tie. Facial trauma includes fracture of facial bones (orbital, nasal bone, cheekbone, lower jaw bone) or damage to soft tissues of the face. Hand trauma includes damage to finger or tendon, muscle, nerve or blood vessel of lower arm. Cosmetic surgery include eyelid or scar surgery, burns, osmidrosis axillae, reconstruction of pressure sore or reconstruction surgery of various areas after receiving cancer surgery.
Above various specialties of plastic surgery is not well known in Korea. Since most private plastic surgery clinics are specialized in beauty-cosmetic surgery, 'plastic surgery' has been recognized as managing beauty-purpose cases only, whereas university hospitals have been taken treatment in various specialties mentioned above. Recently, with the recent trend of private clinics specializedfor hand disorder or deformities, people's perception will change a lot.
Area
- Congenital anomaly
- Skin and head and neck tumor
- Facial trauma
- Reconstruction of hand and lower extremities
- Breast reconstruction
- Burn
- Cosmetic surgery
- Others
Reconstruction sugery for facial malformations such as cleft lip (lip split), cleft palate (split of the cleft), and residual deformity after surgery, syndactyly, polydactyly or acquired malformations
