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Plastic surgery is a surgical specialty involving the restoration, reconstruction, or alteration of the human body. It can be divided into two main categories: ...
Varaztad H. Kazanjian [1] (Armenian: Վարազդատ Գազանճեան, March 18, 1879 – October 19, 1974) was an Armenian American oral surgeon who pioneered techniques for plastic surgery and is considered to be the founder of the modern practice of plastic surgery. [2] [3] [4] He graduated from Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 1905.
1895. The first successful cardiac surgery was performed by Norwegian surgeon Axel Cappelen. The patient later died of complications, though the autopsy found it was for other reasons, as the wound had been satisfactorily closed. 1896. The first successful cardiac surgery without any complications was performed by German surgeon Ludwig Rehn. 1900.
He was an innovator in modern plastic surgery and reconstructive surgery who developed methods for aesthetic plastic surgery, including cosmetic rhinoplasty. He noted that cosmetic surgery, while not a physical necessity, was worth the risks to a person's health because of its positive impact on their spirit, personality, and role in the world.
Gaspare Tagliacozzi (his last name has also been spelled Taliacotius, Tagliacoze or Tagliacozzio; [1] Bologna, March 1545 – Bologna, 7 November 1599) was an Italian surgeon, pioneer of plastic and reconstructive surgery.
The American surgeon Philip Syng Physick (1768–1837) worked in Philadelphia and invented a number of new surgical methods and instruments. [18] He has been called the "father of modern surgery". [ 19 ] [ 20 ]
Gillies caricatured in Punch's Personalities by George Belcher, 1929. Gillies was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, the son of Member of Parliament in Otago, Robert Gillies. [3] He attended Whanganui Collegiate School and studied medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where despite a stiff elbow sustained sliding down the banisters at home as a child, he was an excellent sportsman.
Dr. Chakkiri Balakrishnan (CBK) (1918–1997) was a plastic surgeon from India ( Marakkara, Madras State, present day Kerala) who was a pioneer of modern plastic surgery in India, when he established second independent Department of Plastic Surgery in India, at the Medical College Hospital, Nagpur, in 1958. [1] [2] [3]