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The Development of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery: A History

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Aesthetic plastic surgery had its origins, probably with Dieffenbach, in the mid-1800’s. In its earliest stages great use was made of external incisions in the facial region, which were obvious to the casual observer. Yet the true beginning of aesthetic plastic surgery as we know it today, was not until 1887, when John Orlando Roe introduced an intranasal corrective operation on the nose. From that time onward, aesthetic plastic surgery developed in a fascinating manner over the subsequent decades to become the fine scientific art we take for granted today.

“Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age? Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity? And will you yet call yourself young?”

William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part II, 2, 204 (62)

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Rogers, B.O. (1976). The Development of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery: A History. In: González-Ulloa, M. (eds) The Creation of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4319-7_1

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