What is Plastic-Surgery
Plastic surgery is a general term for operative manual and instrumental treatment which is performed for functional or aesthetic reasons.
Common reconstructive surgeries are:...
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i dont know where to begin. so many thoughts are g...
tracylynnc Feb 09, 2010
cant think of a title for this one
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
i dont know where to begin. so many thoughts are going thru my head..its racing from one topic to another. im really trying hard to following the advice of a really close friend of mine, who tells me to be positive. . as much as i want to be and i dont want to disspoint them, i am having a difficult time. a hard time. what test am i being put thru this day!!! i know each st...
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tracylynnc Feb 06, 2010
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Well, let me give an update on whats the latest.
ill try to be brief about this. and wordy, as i can just ramble on and on.
Jan. 29, experience a major anxiety/panic attack. H found me in shower crying. HE thought he caused it. he just couldnt understand what i was telling him. it had nothing to do with him..and by the way, after he was frustrated at the entire ...
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I hate it when people ask me where I see myself...
gigi2 Feb 06, 2010
Everything I have can be lost in the blink of an eye
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I hate it when people ask me where I see myself 10 yrs from now. I ABSOLUTELY hate it!
I hate thinking about the future.
I see myself without the person I'm closest to,my grandpa:( I see myself wishing to live in the past (which is now my present) just so I can be with him and have him with me.
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Here it is. 4 weeks after the last. He has a ragin...
whiskeyta... Feb 05, 2010
I try so hard to stay positive..
Friday, February 5, 2010
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Sick again..................
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whiskeyta... Feb 04, 2010
Why do I bother to continue to do this?
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I'm trying to get my self together after waisting a year. I'm trying to learn something new everyday and I have to say that it's pretty satisfying to learn new things and get new skills.
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Thank you Lord for making me "essential personnel"
If I stayed one more day, locked in that house, with that man.....I may very well have killed him.
And seriously, I live in the SOUTH. It's not supposed to snow there!......WTF!?!?
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givingupo... Jan 24, 2010
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Well as usual it has been a while since i have written.... short and sweet i'm living in Orlando with Joe... I love him so much and i feel like he is my true soul mate in life! i couldn't be happier with another man.... I have a about 10 weeks left of school until i go on my externship site for 2 months..... Joe has about 8 more months left in school..... today is Tobys 5th birthday!! mom...1 Recommendation1 Comment -
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gigi2 Jan 22, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010 |
I don't want to be the person that I am.I want to do something useful with my life and go forward. But how can I do that when feel so hopeless?? My latest problem started out when I was about 17.A few people pointed out to me that I have some strange features,including my eyes.I went to different surgeons and one of them pointed ALL the things that was wrong with me(even things I had nev...1 Recommendation
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i dont know where to begin. so many thoughts are going thru my head..its racing from one topic to another. im really trying hard to following t...
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Plastic Surgery Information
Plastic surgery is a general term for operative manual and instrumental treatment which is performed for functional or aesthetic reasons.
Common reconstructive surgeries are: breast reconstruction for women who have had a mastectomy, cleft lip and palate surgery, contracture surgery for burn survivors, and closing skin and mucosa defects after removal of tumors in the head and neck region. Sex reassignment surgery for transsexual people is another example of reconstructive surgery.
Plastic surgeons have developed the use of microsurgery to transfer tissue for coverage of a defect when no local tissue is available. Tissue "flaps" comprised of skin, muscle, bone, fat or a combination, may be removed from the body, moved to another site on the body and reconnected to a blood supply by suturing arteries and veins as small as 1-2 mm in diameter.
There is a definite gray area between reconstructive and cosmetic surgery. Many of the techniques of cosmetic surgery are utilized in reconstructive surgery to improve cosmesis.
Cosmetic surgery is a very popular avenue for personal enhancement, as demonstrated by the 11.9 million cosmetic procedures performed in the U.S. alone in 2004. As for any operation, cosmetic procedures involve risk, and should therefore not be undertaken lightly. Within the US, critics of plastic surgery note that it is legal for any doctor, regardless of speciality, to perform "cosmetic surgery", but not "plastic surgery". It is thus important to distinguish the terms "plastic surgery" and "cosmetic surgery": Plastic Surgery is recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties (the only official entity overseeing physician certification in the United States) as the subspecialty dedicated to the surgical repair of defects of form or function -- this includes cosmetic (or aesthetic) surgery, as well as reconstructive surgery. The term "cosmetic surgery" however, simply refers to surgery that is designed to improve cosmetics, or appearance. (One could argue that reconstructive surgery always has some cosmetic aspect to it, because form and function are often both important in plastic surgery repairs.) Thus there is no real art of "cosmetic surgery": it is a catch-all commercial phrase that laypeople understand easily and non-plastic surgeons eagerly use because they are not allowed to use the term "plastic surgery".
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