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Plastic surgery is surgery that deals with shape-changing or restorative interventions on organs or tissue parts for functional or aesthetic/cosmetic reasons. In particular, this surgery deals with the visible part of the body.The aim of plastic surgery is to restore or improve body shape and visibly disturbed body functions. In plastic surgery, procedures are performed for either cosmetic reasons only or functional ones or for both reasons together. Accordingly, there are different main directions in plastic surgery, as follows: Aesthetic Surgery This includes form-changing interventions whose indications are not medical,but exclusively through the desires determined by the patient.They are colloquially known as "cosmetic surgery" and aim to improve the image of the patient. Aesthetic surgery is not a new invention of the 20th century, but has been known for at least 1400 years and already had significant successes in the Middle Ages and early modern times, but only experienced its boom in the 19th century. Burn surgery: It is a specialty that treats severe and emergency burns in specialized burn centers, in addition to working to treat the consequences of burns. Here, many reconstructive surgery methods are used. Hand surgery It is a separate (multidisciplinary) specialty in plastic surgery, trauma surgery and orthopaedics It mainly deals with the treatment of injuries, malformations and diseases of the hand and forearm. In addition, microsurgery is used here,for example, in re-implantation operations. Plastic and aesthetic surgery has many special features. Aesthetic surgery includes body sculpting, fillers, face lift, fat tamponade, hand surgery, carpal tunnel syndrome, breast augmentation, scarring and other operations. The specialist in plastic surgery defines a quality feature.