Plastic, aesthetic or cosmetic and reconstructive surgeries are basically very closely related disciplines that overlap in many aspects, making it very difficult, and sometimes pointless to distinguish them. The word “plastic” comes from the Greek word, which refers to the art of modelling or sculpturing. It means that plastic surgery techniques are essentially designed to model the appearance of a person, to change, restore or improve the appearance. Tissue plastics is needed when it comes to restoring tissue integrity by removing scars, tumors, burns, chronic wounds, and surgeries on aesthetic indications.
The essence of reconstructive or restorative surgery consists in restoring the function, in this case the appearance remains in the second plan. Reconstruction operations may be aimed at restoring various functions of the body, for example fingers movements, due to injuries, burns, oncological diseases or other causes. Still, one of the most important functions of the human body is aesthetic, therefore, surgical surgeries include operations in which the function of the disease before or after trauma has not been restored, but efforts are made to return the organ’s appearance (restoring the breast is not intended to restore milk production, as well as restoring the ear canal, hear loss does not improve).