Paediatric Plastic Surgery

Plastic surgery on children is referred to as paediatric plastic surgery. The most common reasons for its operations are reconstructive or cosmetic. This distinction is sometimes hazy in children since many congenital abnormalities affect both physical and cosmetic function.

Surgery is the use of operational instrumental therapy to cure wounds or medical disorders. Greek word plastikos, which meaning “to build up” or “to take form,” is the root of the term plastic.

This prefix makes sense because the majority of reconstructive and cosmetic surgical treatments involve the reconstruction or reformation of bodily components. A congenital abnormality is usually corrected during the 3% of plastic surgery procedures performed on children.

Reconstructive plastic surgery is used to treat aberrant bodily structures brought on by birth deformities, developmental problems, trauma, infections, tumours, or illness. While restoring normal motor function or preventing present or future health issues are the two main reasons reconstructive surgery is performed, the surgical team also takes aesthetics into account.