TISSUE LOSS, WOUNDS, ULCERS, INJURIES, SKIN LOSS, BONE LOSS, PLASTIC SURGERY, COSMETIC SURGERY, DR ALEXANDER, COCHIN, KERALA, INDIA+

When large area of skin or tissue is lost the body cannot heal itself or replace it. The human body only repairs the tissue – it cannot regenerate tissues. Therefore plastic surgery will help to replace skin or tissue loss from other areas of the human body by skin grafts or flaps (skin, fat, fascia, bone muscle etc) and experience with cosmetic surgery will help to do the operation in a more aesthetic manner.

The plastic surgeon works on two basic principles:
1) What is the defect (tissue that needs to be replaced like skin, fat, bone, muscle, etc)
2) Replace the lost tissue by a similar tissue
This is simple to understand: if your son has lost his shoes, you have to replace them with a new pair of shoes. You can’t buy him a pair of gloves instead!!

Once the wound is cleaned of all dead tissue, we need to evaluate the defect and the missing tissue. The next step is to replace it. If skin is lost- replace skin, if muscle is missing- replace muscle, if bone is missing –replace with bone and so on. Tissue transfers form an important part of plastic surgery and all qualified plastic surgeons spend their initial training period in trying to master this art. This process however continues throughout his career....as the experienced plastic surgeon will realize.