Medical specialty concerned with the altering or restoration of form and function

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Cranio-facial injury: a French soldier with a scarred forehead, before plastic surgery at the Val-de-Grace hospital, Paris. Photograph, 1915.

Cranio-facial injury: a French soldier with a head injury: before plastic surgery. Photograph, 1916.

Cranio-facial injury: a French soldier with an injury to his forehead; in profile: before plastic surgery. Photograph, 1917.

M0013859: Man undergoing plastic surgery on the lower lip, 16th century

Plate LXXIII. Surgical technique for rhinoplasty.

The surgical treatment of burns : a clinical report of 789 cases / by Tord Skoog.

Bernard O'Brien.

Lo specchio e il bisturi : vent'anni di chirurgia estetica / D. Libera.

Beiträge zur Autoplastik der Geschwure.

Celsus (AD 25), plastic surgeon : on the repair of defects of the ears, lips, and nose / Willard L. Marmelzat.

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The surgical treatment of burns : a clinical report of 789 cases / by Tord Skoog.

Bernard O'Brien.

Lo specchio e il bisturi : vent'anni di chirurgia estetica / D. Libera.

Beiträge zur Autoplastik der Geschwure.

Celsus (AD 25), plastic surgeon : on the repair of defects of the ears, lips, and nose / Willard L. Marmelzat.