Reconstructive surgery techniques which were practiced in India as long back as in 2000 BC, resembles the modern day plastic surgery techniques.

Plastic surgery is a medical specialty concerned with the correction or restoration of body parts artificially. While it is popularly considered for aesthetic body enhancements, there are many other functional plastic surgical methods such as reconstructive surgery, hand surgery, microsurgery, and the treatment for burns.

The first person to have gained from plastic surgery is Walter Yeo, a British soldier after receiving a skin graft performed by Sir Harold Gillies in 1917.

The most common forms of plastic surgery includes abdominoplasty, better known as tummy tuck, eyelid surgery, breast augmentation, mastopexy, buttock augmentation, rhinoplasty, otoplasty, chin augmentation, cheek augmentation, filler injection, laser skin surfacing, etc.

The media be blamed, the fad for beauty and all perfection by celebrities have driven many to perform plastic surgery more and more.