Mitz V
Service Orthopédie, Hôpital Boucicaut, Paris, France.
World J Surg. 1990 Nov-Dec;14(6):825-8. doi: 10.1007/BF01670530.
The evolution of aesthetic surgery began centuries before the birth of Christ. Since Sushutra's first attempts, surgeons still try to achieve or reconstruct the perfection of individual beauty. Surgeons who are engaged in this field of plastic surgery are called cosmetic or aesthetic surgeons. Aesthetic surgery is not just a specialization concerned largely with the removal of the outward signs of aging, nor is it limited to plastic surgery for improvement by restoration of damaged areas of skin and removal of blemishes. Aesthetic surgery crosses the dividing line between surgery for reconstruction and alteration of deviations (which do not in themselves constitute objective deformities) and is sometimes even performed without medical indication, but just for the gratification of individual vanity. This article summarizes the progress of aesthetic surgery during the last decade in some aspects of the field and tries to estimate its' lasting value.
美容外科的发展始于基督诞生前的几个世纪。自苏什鲁塔首次尝试以来，外科医生们仍在努力实现或重塑个人美的完美。从事整形外科学领域的外科医生被称为美容外科医生。美容外科不仅仅是一个主要关注消除衰老外在迹象的专业领域，也不限于通过修复受损皮肤区域和去除瑕疵来改善的整形手术。美容外科跨越了重建手术与改变偏差（这些偏差本身并不构成客观畸形）之间的界限，有时甚至在没有医学指征的情况下进行，而仅仅是为了满足个人虚荣心。本文总结了过去十年美容外科在该领域某些方面的进展，并试图评估其持久价值。
