Plastic Surgery

Plastic Sugery

Purpose: To show the audience how much the industry of plastic surgery has changed and focus on the most popular procedures of today's society.

Thesis: Plastic surgery began as a way to help injured war victims live a normal life after battle, now it has turned into a billion dollar industry with many different procedures to make one happier whether the operation turns out successful or if it brings along complications.

Audience: High school seniors.

I. Start of Plastic Surgery

A. Rhinoplasty

1. 600 B.C. Ð'- Hindu surgeon reconstructs nose by using piece of cheek

2. 1000 A.D Ð'- Indian technique utilizing skin from the forehead to reconstruct nose.

3. Fifteenth Century Ð'- Epidemic of syphilis

a. Saddle or depressed nose

b. Urgent impetus

4. Sixteenth Century Ð'- Increase in dueling and street brawling

a. Gaspare Taglizcozzi

(1) Called father of plastic surgery

(2) Developed method of reconstructing a nose by transferring flaps from the upper arm.

(a) Not advisable

(b) Entailed variety of numerous surgeries over period of months

(c) Dealt with cast that kept arm elevated and attached to nose

( ) Pain was excruciating

( ) Infection risk was great

(d) Those who survived were left with scarring that was far from attractive

(e) Dead giveaway to what one had done

b. Practioner who introduced Indian techniques in 1815

(1) Drew clear line between morally fraught and definitions of reconstructive and cosmetic surgery.

(a) Maimed heroes of the Napoleonic Wars deserved his ministrations.

(b) Fornicators and their progeny did not deserve his ministrations.

5. Nineteenth Century

a. Developments in antisepsis and anesthesia

(1) Made surgery less painful

(2) Made surgery safer

b. Scarring, and the past it signified remained a problem

c. John Orlando Roe, New York surgeon

(1) Named five types of nose

(a) Roman

(b) Greek

(c) Jewish

(d) Snub/Pug

(e) Celestial

(2) Developed a procedure that worked within nostrils and left no exterior scars.

II. War World I

A. Trench Warfare

1. Left numbers of disfiguring faces

2. Left it impossible to hide faces

B. America after trench warfare

1. Heroes loathed to apply for jobs

2. Heroes loathed to court a girl

3. Heroes loather to walk down the street

4. Heroes couldn't support themselves, so they became wards of the state.

C. Fixing victims of trench