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Plastic surgery involves molding of tissues or acquiring adjoining or distant tissues to replace that which has been damaged or lost. The picture above is of an unfortunate lady who was involved in a road traffic accident and suffered severe injuries to her had with loss of skin and tissues over the dorsum of her hand. She also had an injury to her tendons (string like structure that helps to make the finger move up or down). God has endowed man with laxity of tissues which we can take advantage of. The lax skin and tissues in the adjoining region of the wound is identified and a flap is planned depending on the best geometric design. In this case a rotation flap was carried our (shown by arrow) which helped to effectively cover the wound and important structures underneath +