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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: American plastic surgeons, Plastic surgery, G. Patrick Maxwell, Archibald McIndoe, James R. Lyons, Kenneth Kim, Richard F. Edlich, Robert Goldwyn, Robert Rey, Nikolay P. Serdev, Fiona Wood, Donald Laub, Dennis C Hammond, Fushih Pan, Harold Gillies, Toby Meltzer, Bohdan Pomaha, Steven Hoefflin, Randal Haworth, Alexander Rivkin, Donald Wood-Smith, Ala Bashir, Michael J. Yaremchuk, Peter Butler, Rod Rohrich, Jan Adams, Hal B. Jennings, Howard Bellin, Jack Penn, Robert Bierenbaum, Harry J. Buncke, Theavy Mok, Robert Abbe, Wallace Chang, Maxwell Maltz, Joseph P. Moran, Ted Eisenberg, Frank Ryan, Robert Charles Bell, Albert Ross Tilley, Gurdon Buck, Katsuya Takasu, Douglas Ousterhout, Joseph Pancoast, Ralph Millard, Greg Ganske, Tsitsino Shurgaya, Franck Benhamou, Richard Battle, Pierre Foldes, Ioannis Lyras, Paul Tessier, Jacques Joseph, Todd Wider, Robert Kotler, Bob McFarlane, Stephen Rerych, McKay McKinnon, Louis Ombredanne, Ivo Pitanguy, Irving B. Goldman, Joel Mark Noe, Neville Poy, C. I. Defontenay, Claire L. Straith, Ted Lockwood, Jan F. Esser, John Converse, Ziya Saylan, Philippe-Frederic Blandin, Gary J. Alter, Anthony C. Griffin, Garth Fisher, Linda Li, Walter G. Spohn. Excerpt: Plastic surgery is a medical specialty concerned with the correction or restoration of form and function. Though cosmetic or aesthetic surgery is the best-known kind of plastic surgery, most plastic surgery is not cosmetic: plastic surgery includes many types of reconstructive surgery, hand surgery, microsurgery, and the treatment of burns. In the term plastic surgery, the adjective plastic denotes sculpting, and derives from the Greek ( ), plastik (tekhn ), "the art of modelling" of malleable flesh. Walter Yeo, a British soldier, is often cited as the first known person to have benefited from plastic surgery. The photogr...
