Some Miracles of Cosmetic Surgery Explored

At its core, cosmetic surgery encompasses all the forms of surgery that are done with the aim of improving the outward appearance of the subject on whom the surgery is carried out. Before getting into the exploration of the miracles of cosmetic surgery, it is worth noting that what we are looking at here is a very wide medical field, which is contrary to the impression many of us have of cosmetic surgery: where we tend to limit it to the procedures undertaken by what we considered 'frivolous folks' in a bid to 'alter their God-given looks.' But while that form of cosmetic surgery with a bid to alter one's looks indeed makes for a considerable percentage of all cosmetic surgery operations carried out, it turns out that cosmetic surgery is also the form of surgery responsible for restoring the deformed looks of people who happen to find themselves suffering from various fire or road accidents for instance – and who get their outward appearance deformed as a result of the said incidents.

Of course there is a school of though that fails to recognize the procedures carried out on the poor souls who happen to fall victim to accidents like the said fire accidents and road accidents described above as cosmetic surgery; instead opting to limit the term cosmetic surgery to procedures that are carried out with an aim on otherwise healthy and reasonably good looking people with a bid to even further enhance their looks (with the more essential procedures being instead referred to as a 'restorative surgery').

Whatever definition one chooses to have of cosmetic surgery though, there is no helping in admiring the miracles it is able to produce. One of the most remarkable miracles of cosmetic surgery has to be that of skin reconstruction. Clever doctors have worked out ways of making skin that is lost as a result of getting involved in a fire accident for instance to grow again (by grafting it with skin from parts of the body that were spared from the burns and by using collagen harvested from beef cattle and cadavers!). Now in this day and age, this might not seem like too much of a miracle, until you get to learn that people who got involved in fire accidents and similar 'skin-damaging' events had to live with the consequences of the misfortunes for the rest of their life (often putting them at a great social and economic disadvantage); as there was absolutely no way of rectifying such damage.

Other cosmetic surgery procedures that can be said to be miracles include the likes of chin augmentation and the whole range of craniofacial reconstruction procedures, through which people born with deformed facial features (or people who 'acquire' such features in the course of their lives) can have them rectified: often opening to them vistas of social opportunity previously closed to them by virtue of their appearance.

Even more encouraging is the fact that since there is such great demand in the area, huge research projects in cosmetic surgery are being carried out: and promising even greater miracles in the days to come.