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Plastic Sugery
Purpose: To show the audience how much the industry of plastic surgery has changed and focus on the most popular procedures of todays 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.
Start of Plastic Surgery
Rhinoplasty
600 B.C. Ð- Hindu surgeon reconstructs nose by using piece of cheek
1000 A.D Ð- Indian technique utilizing skin from the forehead to reconstruct nose.
Fifteenth Century Ð- Epidemic of syphilis
Saddle or depressed nose
Urgent impetus
Sixteenth Century Ð- Increase in dueling and street brawling
Gaspare Taglizcozzi
Called father of plastic surgery
Developed method of reconstructing a nose by transferring flaps from the upper arm.
Not advisable
Entailed variety of numerous surgeries over period of months
Dealt with cast that kept arm elevated and attached to nose
( ) Pain was excruciating
( ) Infection risk was great
Those who survived were left with scarring that was far from attractive
Dead giveaway to what one had done
Practioner who introduced Indian techniques in 1815
Drew clear line between morally fraught and definitions of reconstructive and cosmetic surgery.
Maimed heroes of the Napoleonic Wars deserved his ministrations.
Fornicators and their progeny did not deserve his ministrations.
Nineteenth Century
Developments in antisepsis and anesthesia
Made surgery less painful
Made surgery safer
Scarring, and the past it signified remained a problem
John Orlando Roe, New York surgeon
Named five types of nose
Roman
Greek
Jewish
Snub/Pug
Celestial
Developed a procedure that worked within nostrils and left no exterior scars.
War World I
Trench Warfare
Left numbers of disfiguring faces
Left it impossible to hide faces
America after trench warfare
Heroes loathed to apply for jobs
Heroes loathed to court a girl
Heroes loather to walk down the street
Heroes couldnt support themselves, so they became wards of the state.
Fixing victims of trench