A plastic surgeon in Egypt is a medical practitioner who is authorized to perform plastic surgeries, the type of surgeries performed for reconstructive and/or aesthetic (cosmetic) issues. The term plastic does not mean artificial as it was commonly misunderstood, plastic here comes from the Greek word plastic which means the art of modeling or sculpting.
What is meant by plastic surgery?
Plastic surgery is a surgical subspecialty that aims to improve a person’s appearance and restore the normal function of body tissue lost as a result of illness, trauma, or congenital abnormalities.
Except for the central nervous system, plastic surgery restores the function, as well as the appearance of any part of the body.
Who is authorized to perform plastic surgery?
It is important to know that the general surgeon is not highly skilled and practiced to perform plastic surgery, a certified plastic surgeon is the authorized one to perform plastic surgery Generally, a plastic surgeon in Egypt graduated from an accredited medical school, completed at least five years of graduate medical education, divided as three years of general surgery and two years of plastic surgery.
Plastic surgeon in Egypt, in addition to practicing plastic surgery for at least 2 years, have to pass comprehensive written and oral exams to become a certified plastic surgeon; some of these certifications are renewed periodically to ensure ongoing competency in the specialty.
Cosmetic surgery vs plastic surgery
While sharing many techniques, there are two different terms. Plastic surgery is a wide category of techniques that comprises both cosmetic surgery and reconstructive surgery. Reconstructive surgeries are performed to restore the body’s function and near-normal appearance after an injury, illness, or congenital problem, whereas cosmetic surgery is a subtype of plastic surgery that focuses exclusively on aesthetic procedures.
Most plastic surgeon in Egypt are skilled to perform both plastic and cosmetic surgeries.
What is Cosmetic surgery?
The cosmetic procedure includes surgical interventions intended to enhance the appearance of the body by adjusting the proportions, augmenting, or improving the symmetry of certain body parts.
Almost cosmetic procedures are elective, that’s means that patients decide to undergo these processes on a selected area of the body that does not require an improvement in function just to improve its appearance.
Cosmetic procedures gained great popularity and increased demand among the public in Egypt despite being rarely covered by health insurance, and it does not restrict only to stars and public figures, a plastic surgeon in Egypt gained great skills and experience and is up to date with all new techniques to keep up with the great demand for cosmetic procedures.
Most commonly performed cosmetic surgery in Egypt
A plastic surgeon in Egypt performs a wide variety of cosmetic procedures, however, the most popular cosmetic procedures with high demand among the public are the following:
- Breast augmentation
- Breast lift
- Liposuction
- Nose reshaping
- Eyelid surgery
- Tummy tuck
- Facelift
- Botox injections
- Cellulite treatment
- Chemical peel
- Collagen or fat injections for facial rejuvenation.
- Laser skin resurfacing
- Vaginal rejuvenation
- Hair replacement or transplantation
- Lip augmentation
- Upper arm lift
Dr. Ali Gaber would briefly discuss the meaning of the most commonly performed procedure in Egypt, how it would help to enhance your beauty, and what it aims for.
Breast augmentation
Breast augmentation is an invasive procedure aimed to increase the size, and improve the roundness, and symmetry of your breasts. A plastic surgeon in Egypt performs this procedure by inserting implants composed of either saline or silicone in case you want a dramatic change, or by fat transfer from another part of your body in case you are interested in a small increase in breast weight and size.
Breast lift
A breast lift is a surgical intervention performed to eliminate sagging breasts resulting from many factors including pregnancy, lactation, massive weight loss, or genetics. Breast lift is a safe effective procedure with long-lasting results involving elevating the breasts, enhancing their fullness and roundness, and repositioning the nipple-areolar area.
Liposuction
Liposuction is a wild field of procedures that all aim to remove unwanted body fat either surgically by sucking them out through performed incisions, or non-surgically through breaking them down and the body later would get rid of them.
Liposuction results are permanent since it lowers the number of fat cells in a specific area, and the fat cell you lost would not regain, and the skin after liposuction would mold itself to the new shapes of the treated areas.
Liposuction is commonly known as body contouring and could be performed on all body areas including the neck and chin, the most common areas where plastic surgeon in Egypt perform liposuction is the belly, tummy tuck, buttock, upper arms, thigh, and double chin liposuction.
Facelift
A face-lift is one of the most commonly performed cosmetic surgeries by plastic surgeon in Egypt, the facelift is a cosmetic procedure involving various techniques that aim to create a youthful look in the face by reducing sagging skin and smooth skin folds on the cheeks and jawline.
Lip augmentation
Lip augmentation is a cosmetic procedure that improves the shape of the lips by injecting fillers, such as collagen or implants. This procedure aims to boost lip size, correct asymmetry, create protrusion, or adjust the proportion of the top and bottom lips. A plastic surgeon in Egypt performs lip augmentation as well as many minor procedures within his clinic without the need for hospital admission.
Botox injections
Botox injections are a commonly performed cosmetic procedure that a plastic surgeon in Egypt performs in his clinic, and it involves shots of a toxin to affect muscle movement for a limited time. These shots have a wide range of uses either cosmetically or as treatment of certain conditions, such as smooth facial wrinkles, treat neck spasms, sweating, overactive bladder, migraine, lazy eye, and other conditions.
Dr. Ali Gaber enumerated to you the most common but not all cosmetic procedures performed by plastic surgeon in Egypt and he ensured that the cosmetic surgery field has a wide scope of continuously developing techniques to meet the increasing demand for enhancing beauty.
Top-rated plastic surgeon in Egypt
Cosmetic procedures are elective procedures so you have to take your time to make a deep search to find the best plastic surgeon in Egypt before you decide to undergo one of these procedures. You have to ensure the surgeon’s certifications, years of experience, and number of successfully performed surgeries, in addition, you have to select an accredited facility with a high level of patient care.
Dr. Ali Gaber is one of the top-rated plastic surgeon in Egypt with the largest number of successfully performed procedures with the highest patient satisfaction rates.
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