Plastic surgery
![Plates vi & vii of the Edwin Smith Papyrus at the Rare Book Room, New York Academy of Medicine[4]](/Images/godic/202502/03/Edwin_Smith_Papyrus_v25751.jpg")
![Statue of Sushrut, the Father of Plastic Surgery, at Haridwar](/Images/godic/202502/03/Shushrut_statue5751.jpg")
![The Roman scholar Aulus Cornelius Celsus recorded surgical techniques, including plastic surgery, in the first century AD.](/Images/godic/202502/03/Aulus_Cornelius_Celsus5751.jpg")
![Walter Yeo, a sailor injured at the Battle of Jutland, is assumed to have received plastic surgery in 1917. The photograph shows him before (left) and after (right) receiving a flap surgery performed by Gillies](/Images/godic/202502/03/Walter_Yeo_skin_graft5751.jpg")
Plastic surgery is defined as a surgical specialty dedicated to reconstruction of facial and body defects due to birth disorders, trauma, burns, and disease. Plastic surgery is intended to correct dysfunctional areas of the body and is reconstructive in nature. Though cosmetic or aesthetic surgery is the most well known kind of plastic surgery, plastic surgery itself is not necessarily considered cosmetic and includes many types of reconstructive surgery, craniofacial surgery, hand surgery, microsurgery, and the treatment of burns.