Repairing is part of my everyday job. Repairing damaged bodies, faces and tissues, breasts deformed by disease, scars, malformations, or serious damages from car accidents. Repairing faces and bodies damaged by life, pregnancies, or time. All reconstructions should be aesthetic.
Humans have always sought to heal and repair their injured brothers. The Egyptians, the Greeks, the Arabs and kings’ Barber-Surgeons have left us descriptions of their reconstructive surgical methods: stitches in flesh tissues, removal of deforming tumors, treatments for cleft lips, and reconstruction of eyelids or fingers. However, we often consider reconstructive surgery to have originated during the first World War and the treatment of the “gueules cassées”. SInce 1918, reconstructive techniques have significantly improved and are increasingly cosmetic, although the fundamentals remain unchanged.
Although reconstructive surgery and cosmetic surgery are often regarded as two separate branches, they overlap on the most basic level: cosmetic surgery always aims to repair a deep issue for the patient while reconstructive surgery always has a cosmetic goal. The distinction between the two is the cause of the flaw: for reconstructive surgery, it is either a malformation, a trauma or injury, or a disease; whereas cosmetic surgery repairs flaws caused by time or that are not linked to any pathological condition.
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