Plastic surgery

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Plastic surgery is a surgical specialty concerned with the correction or restoration of form and function, and can deal with problems such as burns, surgery on hands and limbs and aesthetic surgery.

Contents 1 Notable Plastic surgeons in Grey's Anatomy/Private Practice 2 Surgical Procedures 3 Notable Cases 3.1 Grey's Anatomy 3.1.1 Season 4

[edit] Notable Plastic surgeons in Grey's Anatomy/Private Practice

• Dr. Mark Sloan (Head of Plastic Surgery at Seattle Grace Hospital)

[edit] Surgical Procedures

• Abdominoplasty (or a "Tummy-Tuck"): Reshaping of the abdomen.
• Reconstructive surgery: Correcting problems which were congenital or acquired through trauma, commonly breast reconstruction (after a breast has been removed due to cancer) and facial reconstruction (after trauma)
• Rhinoplasty (or "nose job"): Reshaping of the nose.

[edit] Notable Cases

[edit] Grey's Anatomy

[edit] Season 4

• Ectopia Cordis Closure (Piece of My Heart): Addison returns to Seattle Grace to deal with a pregnant women who's child is diagnosed with ectopia cordis - his heart has grown outside his body. Addison delivers the child, Hahn works to place the heart inside the chest and Sloan closes using a skin flap grown from the child's own skin.