The Plastic Surgery is a medical specialty that deals with surgical interventions aimed at eliminating disease, rebuild tissues or correct defects on the outside of the body.

The origins of this specialty surgical seem to go back to antiquity. The first testimony is preserved is a papyrus from 3500 B.C. Speaking of conducting tissue transplants.

Plastic Surgery and Cosmetic Surgery

Inside the plastic surgery there is a branch devoted to surgical procedures aesthetic purposes. In other words, cosmetic surgery is included in the plastic and does not exist as a specialty in its own right.

The difference is that cosmetic surgery deals generally healthy patients, who seek to change certain aspects of your body to improve their appearance. Editing features congenital, caused by an accident or illness or produced by the passage of time as wrinkles.

The plastic surgeries to correct diseases or eliminate tumors are procedures that covers Social Security. However, the operations of aesthetics can not normally carried out in public health and is necessary to resort to a private center.

There are certain interventions traditionally aesthetic that could cover Social Security, if they produce serious physical or psychological disorders. Among these cases is for example the reconstruction of breasts after removal of a cancer.

Silicone implants

The application of silicone implants has been one of the greatest advances in cosmetic surgery. From the'60s are being made these implants, primarily in order to improve the size and shape of the breasts.

Currently, depending on the circumstances and location of the body that is going to make, there are different types of implants that are also presented in different ways.

Generally, these implants have the appearance of small pockets and both the external and the internal component in the form of a gel, are silicone.

Non-surgical cosmetic procedures

In addition to a surgery that requires the use of anesthesia, there are other means of intervention such as lasers or application of chemicals, which are also met correct certain physical aspects:

·  Laser: consists of applying intense beams of light on certain cells, increasing its temperature to achieve their elimination. In cosmetic surgery has applications such as hair removal and eliminating wrinkles, blemishes and other imperfections in the skin.

·  Botox: a substance developed from the toxin causing botulism, a disease can paralyze muscles. It is injected into small amounts in order to paralyze the muscle and correct wrinkles and expression marks being made in the face with the passage of time.

·  Peeling chemical and involves removing dead cells and the most superficial layer of the skin of the face by applying certain chemicals. It is done with a view to removing stains and correct minor flaws.