All the hype surrounding plastic surgery makes it difficult to comprehend that this branch of medicine is actually steeped in ancient history. Roughly placed around the 6th B.C., plastic surgery had its roots in the need for new noses by criminals who had their noses amputated for misdemeanors.
A practitioner of medicine named Sushruta devised a procedure which would give these people their noses back. He is held to be the first surgeon to perform a reconstructive rhinoplasty procedure by using skin from the forehead. He devised more than 15 methods to repair a damaged nose. Sushruta is also credited as the first doctor to have performed plastic surgery.
The Sushruta Samhita or Sushruta’s compendium holds all his medicinal knowledge and is considered to be one of the cornerstones of Indian medical tradition. After continuous conquests the book traveled all over the Middle East and finally was noticed by a British surgeon in 1793 who went on to publish it a year later. What followed, led to a revival of this branch of medicine.
Sushruta laid down the basic principles of plastic surgery and described different rotation types and pedicle flaps in this book. He successfully performed cosmetic surgery using wine as an anesthetic and instruments crafted of pure iron.
Modern plastic surgery owes a lot of its procedures to practices used by this ancient plastic surgeon.
At the Plastic Surgery Institute of California, our doctors have carried on the legacy left behind by the earliest father of plastic surgery with great success. While primitive surgical methods are no longer in use, the continuous innovations are constantly analyzed by us to get better results for our patients.
A practitioner of medicine named Sushruta devised a procedure which would give these people their noses back. He is held to be the first surgeon to perform a reconstructive rhinoplasty procedure by using skin from the forehead. He devised more than 15 methods to repair a damaged nose. Sushruta is also credited as the first doctor to have performed plastic surgery.
The Sushruta Samhita or Sushruta’s compendium holds all his medicinal knowledge and is considered to be one of the cornerstones of Indian medical tradition. After continuous conquests the book traveled all over the Middle East and finally was noticed by a British surgeon in 1793 who went on to publish it a year later. What followed, led to a revival of this branch of medicine.
Sushruta laid down the basic principles of plastic surgery and described different rotation types and pedicle flaps in this book. He successfully performed cosmetic surgery using wine as an anesthetic and instruments crafted of pure iron.
Modern plastic surgery owes a lot of its procedures to practices used by this ancient plastic surgeon.
At the Plastic Surgery Institute of California, our doctors have carried on the legacy left behind by the earliest father of plastic surgery with great success. While primitive surgical methods are no longer in use, the continuous innovations are constantly analyzed by us to get better results for our patients.
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