Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery is a medical specialty concerned with the restoration and correction of bodily form or function. The specialty has two main areas: RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY & AESTHETIC (OR COSMETIC) SURGERY:
Reconstructive surgery is performed primarily to correct structural and/or functional abnormalities or impairments in various body areas, although the restoration of normal appearance is often an additional benefit. These impairments may be caused by burns, trauma, congenital or developmental defects, infection, or cancer.
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery include:

• Surgeries on congenital abnormalities, e.g. repair of cleft palates or cleft lips, nasal deformities causing breathing problems
• Surgery following burns e.g. skin grafting and release of skin tightening and scarring (contractures)
• Surgery following traumatic injuries, e.g. repair of facial bone fractures and breaks
• Laceration and scar repair.

Cosmetic surgery consists of procedures that revise or reshape parts of the body in order to change a person’s appearance in the absence of any preceding trauma, burn, infection, tumor, etc.