Wednesday, November 28, 2007

A Bullet For The Country And A Needle For The Face:

The geography of the Middle East makes it a very harsh land to stage battle in. Rocky deserts, shifting sands, enemy shrapnel and metal and houses of stone and mortar are all part of the landscape. When these blow up, the damage caused to a body can be severe and at times quite devastating. Around 28,000 U.S. soldiers are estimated to have been wounded in the war in Iraq, and more than 1,200 soldiers suffer casualtie from the Afghanistan war alone.

Some soldiers return with multiple injuries and deformities and require close to seventeen surgeries to get the body back to a semblance of normalcy. The U.S. military hospitals certainly carry out their job very well. They stitch, cut, slice, bind and heal very expertly and help war veterans to get back in function.

Understandably, that is just about the best they can do, seeing that physical well-being takes precedence over any other matter. But where the military hospitals sign off, plastic surgery and reconstructive surgery step in.

A lot of plastic surgeons provide procedures that help a war veteran get the best of his looks back. A majority of these soldiers come to surgeons with scarred faces resulting from debris, shrapnel and second degree burns. A nose hit out of place, smashed jawlines, cuts in the hands, etc. are also a common problems.

In such cases plastic surgeons come to the rescue with laser treatments, surgeries for the face, microdermabrasion procedures, rhinoplasty, peels, etc. By taking care of the aesthetic healing of war wounds, a plastic surgeon can help restore a soldier’s self worth.

The war need not be the end of a soldier’s potential. At the Plastic Surgery Institute Of California, we do our best to aid a smooth transition from a life of combat to a life of social normalcy. Visit us at any of our facilities in California for consultation and cosmetic surgery prcedures.

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