World War was the time when plastic surgery is promoted as we know it today, because the enormous number of victims of war soldiers injured by projectiles that disfigured their faces and their bodies forced the formation of centers specializing in reconstruction of injured both in Europe and the U.S., where specialty was not recognized. These centers arise as Morestin large plastic surgeons, Sir H. Gillies, and V.H. Kazanjian creators of instrumental and reconstruction techniques still used today and bearing their names. Later during World War II the field of plastic surgery and no longer increases more or less confined to the maxillofacial reconstruction.
The dermatome is invented by Padget in 1939 in collaboration with Hood a mechanical engineer, but the idea of devices that take skin grafts from a constant thickness and Finochieto had been developed by a surgeon who invented a knife Argentino calibrated in 1920.
In periods of peace between these wars and the post-Second World War has been a great development of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. (more…)
