Health Care Providers: Plastic Surgeons
en español: Profesionales de la salud: Cirujanos plásticos
Medically reviewed by: KidsHealth Medical Experts
What Is Plastic Surgery?
Plastic surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on improving how parts of the body look or work.
What Is a Plastic Surgeon?
A plastic surgeon is a doctor who does surgery to repair, rebuild, or replace a part of the body to improve how it looks or works.
Why Would Someone Need One?
Plastic surgeons can help with:
- burn repair surgery
- a congenital (present at birth) problem repair, such as for cleft palate or ear anomalies
- hand surgery
- scar revision (to make a scar less noticeable)
- breast-reduction surgery
- cosmetic surgery, such as reshaping the nose or pinning back the ears so they don’t stick out
- gender reassignment surgery (when someone feels their body doesn't match their gender identity)