What is Reconstructive Surgery?
- Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; It is a surgical branch that tries to eliminate congenital or acquired anomalies, shape and function disorders and to correct body image. Plastic is a word from the Greek “plasticos” and means “to shape”, “to fit a mold”. Reconstructive, on the other hand, is a word of Latin origin and means "to make again".
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; deals with all kinds of surgical problems that occur on the entire body surface. Events that disrupt the shape and functions of the body may be congenital, traumatic or acquired. E.g; congenital cleft palate-lip, attached finger (syndactyly), vascular masses (such as hemangiomas); traumatic burns, facial injuries due to traffic accidents, various cuts and organ ruptures; Various acquired skin and soft tissue tumors and chronic wounds are in this surgical discipline. Loss of bone (especially face-head and hand bones) and cartilage roof (such as ear and nasal cartilages), deformities, pathological events (tumor, cyst, infection, etc.) are also in the field of plastic surgery. For this, in addition to classical surgical methods, microsurgery, laser systems,
In summary; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery tries to repair all kinds of defects (spaces) affecting the skin, subcutaneous and bones on the entire body surface. While doing this, the basic rule is to make repairs with tissues similar to which tissues have been lost.

Areas of Interest of Reconstructive Surgery:
- Facial deformities – asymmetries, congenital masses, rare facial clefts
- cleft lip-palate
- Craniofacial – maxillofacial anomalies (eg: deformities, irregularities, deficiencies of jaw, face and skull bones)
- Orthognathic surgery (Jaw closure disorders)
- Absence of auricle, prominent ear and other deformities
- Nasal defects, tumors, ruptures
- salivary gland problems
- Congenital tumor, nevus (me), masses, vascular malformations, hemangiomas
- Bone and soft tissue traumas of the face
- Maxillofacial surgery (Bone defects-fractures-shape and function disorders due to traffic accident, tumor and other reasons, jaw surgery
- Head and neck tumors and repair of their defects
- Absence, asymmetry or excess breast tissue
- Breast reconstruction after cancer
- Gynecomastia (Large breasts in men)
- Congenital anomalies of genital organs (Epispadias, hypospadias, vaginal agenesis etc.)
- Repairs of genital organs, replantation of severed organs,
- Chest and abdominal wall defects
- Hand Surgery (Traumas, tumors, finger transfers, finger repairs-extension)
- Deficiencies and deformities in the hand and foot
- Peripheral nerve problems (traumas, neuropathies, defects, masses)
- Skin and soft tissue tumors
- Acute burns and post-burn deformities, contractions, shrinkage, damage to soft tissues by electrical and chemical substances
- Skin and subcutaneous wounds caused by various infections, radiation and other effects
- Chronic wounds (such as pressure sores, venous wounds, diabetic foot wounds)
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