PLASTIC SURGERY
750 B.C.
50 A.C
( 25 B.C 50 A.C)
THE
He translated
TRUE hindu,
arabian and egypcians
FATHER
OF
texts.
PLASTIC
!!!
SURGERY
Published De
Re
Medica
(460 370
B.C.)
ARABIANS MEDICINE
Avanced until 750-850 A.C. when
Coran forbade bloodily procedures.
AVERROAS and AVICENA were the
driving force of medicine and surgery.
There arent books from this time.
RENAISSANCE
Andrea VESALIUS
(1514-1564):
Humanis Corporis
Fabrica
Antomical studies
on animals and
human cadavers.
RENAISSANCE
Leprosy and syphilis multiplied:
Reconstructive surgery of facial
deformity.
Brancas family
Gasparo TAGLIACOZZI
(1546-1599)
RENAISSANCE
Gasparo TAGLIACOZZI
De Curtorum Chirurgia per Incitionem
(1597)
SECOND
FATHER OF
Nose, ear and lips reconstruction
PLASTIC SURGERY !!
1800s 1900s
The driving force behind most plastic
surgery developments was WAR
Improvement of anesthesia, sterile
techniques and antibiotics.
Examples:
1800s 1900s
SABATTINI (1810 1864)
First flap made for specific provision from a
recognized vascular supply
WORLD WAR I
Pivotal point for acknowledgment of plastic
surgery as a speciality.
WWI provided physicians with lots of severe
facial wounds and burns
WORLD WAR I
GILLIES (1882-1960)
Popularized the tubed flap
Tubed flap became a
standard method for
reconstruction.
WORLD WAR I
MORESTIN (1869 1918)
Recommended multiple Z-Plasties to correct all
types of contracted linear scars.
KAZANJIAN (1897-1968)
Observed vessels from a single pedicle were
suficient to feed the entire vascular flap.
WORLD WAR II
Plastic surgery enlarged
Started publication of Plastic and
Reconstructive surgery (USA) and British
Journal of Plastic Surgery
In Spain made stand out Hysern and
Argumosa who developed original
techniques of tissue transplant.
DEVELOPMENT in SPAIN
Great advances during Civil War (19361939)
First Plastic Surgery Service: Hospital
General Mola in San Sebastian.
In 1955 plastic surgery is recognized as a
surgical speciality.
1956 foundation of Sociedad Espaola de
Ciruga Plstica
In 1986 started to publish the Revista
Espaola de Ciruga Plstica afterwards
placed under Ciruga Plstica IberoLatinoamericana
NOWADAYS
Advent of vascular microsurgery and the
free flaps.
NOWADAYS
HARII (1974)
First free flap temporal superficial vessels to
resolve a problem of alopecia.
TAYLOR (1974)
Free groin flap.
Transfered to the leg to repair a compound
injury.