reconstructive surgery
Rebuilding bodily form
Reconstructive surgery repairs or restores body parts damaged by injury, disease, or congenital abnormalities.
Unlike cosmetic surgery, which enhances appearance by choice, reconstructive surgery addresses functional problems or disfigurement: She underwent reconstructive surgery after the car accident, breast reconstructive surgery following mastectomy.
The term covers procedures from skin grafts to complex facial rebuilding.
- skin graftTransplanted tissue covering wounds
- cleft palate repairSurgery closing oral roof fissure
- nerve repairRestoring damaged neural tissue
- wound closureSealing an open injury
- tendon repairSurgical reconnection of fibrous tissue
burn treatment · grafting · bone graft · rhinoplasty · scalpel · cosmetic · before and after · operation · anesthesia · second opinion · trauma · healing · recovery · restoration · skin · sutures · rehabilitation · disfigurement
- surgeriesappendectomy, hysterectomy, mastectomy, cholecystectomy, tonsillectomy
- surgeryoperation, incision, scalpel, suture, sutures
- vet proceduresspay, neuter, spaying, neutering, cesarean
- Dermatologyskin biopsy, skin graft, skin grafting, mole removal, cryotherapy
- plastic surgeryrhinoplasty, facelift, liposuction, breast augmentation, tummy tuck
- war medicinecombat medic, combat medics, field hospital, field hospitals, medic
reconstructive surgerycosmetic surgery
Medical alteration for appearance
aesthetic surgery · cosmetic enhancement · breast augmentation · liposuction · facelift
reconstructive surgerywatchful waiting
Monitoring before acting
non-intervention · benign neglect · letting nature take its course · natural healing
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