Knowra Reconstructive surgery Reconstructive surgery Reconstructive surgery restores or improves bodily form or function after injury, disease, or congenital difference, using procedures that repair, replace, or reshape affected tissues.
Skin grafting : A procedure that transfers skin from one body site to cover a wound elsewhere. It restores wound coverage when damaged skin cannot close the defect.
Breast reconstruction : Surgery that restores breast shape after mastectomy or corrects congenital or developmental differences. It rebuilds breast form using implants, transferred tissue, or both.
Cosmetic surgery : Surgery intended primarily to alter appearance rather than repair a defect or restore impaired function. Its primary aim differs from reconstruction, though procedures and techniques can overlap.
Functional outcome : The effect of a treatment on a person's ability to perform physical or daily activities. Restored movement, sensation, or other abilities are central measures of reconstructive success.
Sushruta : An ancient Indian physician traditionally associated with the Sanskrit surgical compendium Sushruta Samhita. The text describes nasal reconstruction techniques among early accounts of reconstructive surgery.
Flap surgery : A procedure that moves tissue with its blood supply to repair a defect. Flaps provide living tissue when reconstruction needs reliable blood flow or greater volume.
Cleft lip and palate repair : Surgery that closes congenital openings of the upper lip or palate and addresses related function. It combines facial reconstruction with improvements in feeding, speech, and facial growth.
Plastic surgery : A surgical specialty that reshapes, repairs, or reconstructs tissues throughout the body. Reconstructive surgery is one major branch of this broader specialty.
Quality of life : A person's overall well-being across physical, psychological, and social dimensions. Reconstruction can affect comfort, participation, and well-being beyond the repaired body part.
Sushruta Samhita : An ancient Sanskrit compendium on medicine and surgery traditionally attributed to Sushruta. Its surgical descriptions include a method of reconstructing the nose with a forehead flap.
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