Thesis and outline - Due in 15 hours

For my course project, I choose to write on how technology has improved plastic surgery. Technology has advanced how medical care is performed in so many ways. Plastic surgery has allowed physicians to have a vast selection of tools at their disposal. There have been many developments within recent decades that allow physicians to provide safer and better quality of care such as digital photography, photo-imaging software, email, electronic scheduling, physician websites, training for physicians and assistants, simulators, robotics, radiofrequency, lasers, or even procedures being done with an endoscope.

There are many new technology advancements in plastic surgery. Different lasers such as carbon dioxide lasers help with hyperpigmentation, getting rid of cellulite, decreasing wrinkles, removing tattoos, treating red vascular lesions, and many other procedures. Laser provides patients a lot of options with damage such as tissue destruction.

Skin grafting is a new technology that has advanced throughout recent years. It can provide patients with different options such as covering missing skin, smoothing out scars, and filling in areas that have been damaged do to age or other reasons. Skin grafting is a procedure where the physician takes healthy skin from one section of the body, and places it in a different area of the body (the place being treated) in order to restore the damaged skin. Skin grafting procedures include split thickness, full thickness, and composite skin graft.

Fat grafting has had tons of success in the field of plastic surgery. Fat grafting is used to create fuller lips, breasts, and adding fat cells around the face to decrease wrinkles and create “plump” facial features such as the cheekbones. Fat grafting is especially used when people age, as age creates sagging and shrinkage in features.

Plastic surgery has come a very long ways in the past two decades. Thanks for technology, surgeons are able to provide newer and safer procedures with less downtime, and less amount of time in clinic or hospital.

Reference

Tech-Progress. (n.d.). How Technology Has Helped Plastic Surgery. Retrieved January 25, 2015, from

http://www.tech-progress.org/how-technology-has-helped-plastic-surgery/