PLASTIC RECONSTRUCTIVE and AESTHETIC SURGERY

Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery; It is a surgical branch that tries to eliminate congenital or acquired anomalies, shape and function disorders and to correct body image. Its two main goals are to create shape and function. For this purpose, anatomical and aesthetic appearance is functionally regained by reshaping the tissues according to the existing disorder.

Although the patient’s own tissues are generally used in plastic surgery procedures, artificial materials such as artificial bone and silicone are also used for repair under appropriate conditions. Surgical procedures performed on deficiencies and abnormal structures caused by birth defects, developmental anomalies, trauma and accidents, infections, tumors, or other diseases are called ‘reconstructive surgery’. Interventions on disease-free, normal tissues of the body with the aim of improving the person’s external appearance and increasing self-esteem are called ‘aesthetic surgery’.

Plastic surgery appeals to almost every part of the body and a very wide area, and its precise boundaries have not been determined yet, and even the limits are getting wider. Events that disrupt the shape and functions of the body may be congenital, traumatic or acquired, e.g; congenital cleft palate-lip, attached finger (syndactyly), vascular masses (such as hemangiomas); traumatic burns, facial injuries due to traffic accidents, various cuts and organ ruptures; Various acquired skin and soft tissue tumors, chronic wounds are within the scope of this surgical discipline. Loss of bones (especially face-head and hand bones) and cartilage roof (such as ear and nasal cartilages), deformities, pathological events (tumor, cyst, infection, etc.) are also in the field of plastic surgery. For this, in addition to classical surgical methods, microsurgery, laser systems, endoscopy and various chemical agents and drugs can be used.

Aesthetic (or cosmetic) surgery deals with operations and attempts to make the body image more beautiful and perfect. There are more aesthetic problems here than a medical problem. In the media, news about the aesthetic aspect of plastic surgery is getting more data, and perhaps for this reason, the public perceives plastic surgeons only as people who perform aesthetic surgery. However, plastic surgeons deal with repair surgery (reconstructive surgery) in clinics to a greater extent. All plastic surgeons also receive aesthetic surgery training during their specialization training and are the only surgeons authorized to perform these operations.

Our department has 150 international and 80 national publications in the scientific field. Our teaching staff has presented more than 250 papers in congresses to date. In our clinic, all kinds of operations within the scope of plastic and aesthetic surgery are performed with up-to-date methods.

Surgical Operations

Treatment of Congenital Anomalies

·         Cleft lip-palate and other craniofacial anomalies

·         Absence of the auricle and its deformities

·         Absence of the breast

·         Deficiencies and deformities of the hand and foot

·         Congenital tumors and masses

·         Congenital anomalies of the genital organs

Treatment of Acquired Disorders

·         Facial bone and soft tissue traumas

·         Maxillofacial surgery

·         Skin and soft tissue tumors

·         Acute burns and post-burn deformities

·         Head and neck tumors and reconstructions

·         Functional disorders of the extremities

·         Hand Surgery

·         Breast reconstruction following mastectomy

·         Functional disorders of the genital system

·         Chronic wounds (such as pressure sores, diabetic wounds)

Some of the Aesthetic Surgery Operations

·         Rhinoplasty

·         Facial rejuvenation

·         Blepharoplasty

·         Cathopexy – Canthoplasty

·         Forehead lift / Browlift

·         Facelift – Midface lift

·         Necklift

·         Correction of the auricular deformities

·         Chin augmentation and reduction – Genioplasty

·         Augmentation mammoplasty – Mastopexy – Reduction mammoplasty

·         Liposuction – lipectomy-liposhaping – lipofilling

·         Scar removal

·         Hair transplantion – hair restoration surgery

·         Non-surgical aesthetic surgery interventions (synthetic fillers, Botulinum toxin injection, excessive sweating treatment, etc.)