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Reconstructive surgery is in its broadest sense the use of surgery
Surgery

Surgery is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance, or sometimes for some other reason....
 to restore the form and function of the body.

Although plastic surgery
Plastic surgery

Plastic surgery is a medical :Category:Surgical specialties concerned with the correction or restoration of form and function. While famous for aesthetic surgery, plastic surgery also includes a variety of fields such as craniofacial surgery, hand surgery, burn surgery, microsurgery, and reconstructive surgery....
 and plastic surgeons are involved in many aspects of reconstructive surgery, there are other branches of surgery that also perform reconstructive procedures. For example, orthopedic surgeons
Orthopedic surgery

Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic surgeons use both surgical and non-surgical means to treat musculoskeletal trauma, sports injuries, degenerative diseases, infections, tumors, and congenital conditions....
, reconstruct the hip and other joints, repair tendons such as those in the rotator cuff
Rotator cuff

The rotator cuff is an human anatomy term given to the group of muscles and their tendons that act to stabilize the shoulder. Along with the teres major muscle and the deltoid muscle, the four muscles of the rotator cuff make up the six scapulohumeral muscles of the human body....
 and perform osteotomies
Osteotomy

An osteotomy is a surgical Surgery whereby a bone is cut to shorten, lengthen, or change its alignment. It is sometimes performed to correct a hallux valgus, or to straighten a bone that has healed crookedly following a fracture ....
 to straighten angulated bones.






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Reconstructive surgery is in its broadest sense the use of surgery
Surgery

Surgery is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance, or sometimes for some other reason....
 to restore the form and function of the body.

Although plastic surgery
Plastic surgery

Plastic surgery is a medical :Category:Surgical specialties concerned with the correction or restoration of form and function. While famous for aesthetic surgery, plastic surgery also includes a variety of fields such as craniofacial surgery, hand surgery, burn surgery, microsurgery, and reconstructive surgery....
 and plastic surgeons are involved in many aspects of reconstructive surgery, there are other branches of surgery that also perform reconstructive procedures. For example, orthopedic surgeons
Orthopedic surgery

Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic surgeons use both surgical and non-surgical means to treat musculoskeletal trauma, sports injuries, degenerative diseases, infections, tumors, and congenital conditions....
, reconstruct the hip and other joints, repair tendons such as those in the rotator cuff
Rotator cuff

The rotator cuff is an human anatomy term given to the group of muscles and their tendons that act to stabilize the shoulder. Along with the teres major muscle and the deltoid muscle, the four muscles of the rotator cuff make up the six scapulohumeral muscles of the human body....
 and perform osteotomies
Osteotomy

An osteotomy is a surgical Surgery whereby a bone is cut to shorten, lengthen, or change its alignment. It is sometimes performed to correct a hallux valgus, or to straighten a bone that has healed crookedly following a fracture ....
 to straighten angulated bones. Oral and Maxillofacial surgeons
Oral and maxillofacial surgery

Oral and maxillofacial surgery is surgery to correct a wide spectrum of diseases, injuries and defects in the head, neck, face, jaws and the hard and soft tissues of the oral and maxillofacial region....
 and Otolaryngologists
Otolaryngology

Otolaryngology is the branch of medicine that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of ear, nose, throat, and head and neck disorders. The full name of the specialty is otolaryngology-head and neck surgery. Practitioners are called otolaryngologists-head and neck surgeons, or sometimes otorhinolaryngologists ....
 do reconstructive surgery on faces after trauma and to reconstruct the head and neck after cancer.

Other branches of surgery (e.g. General surgery
General surgery

This page is about the surgical specialty. For the goregrind band, see General Surgery General surgery, despite its name, is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal organs, e.g....
, gynecological surgery
Gynecological surgery

Gynecological surgery refers to surgery on a female's genital parts. This includes Hymenorrhaphy and labiaplasty. Usually it is for reconstructive reasons....
, pediatric surgery
Pediatric surgery

Pediatric surgery or paediatric surgery is a medical specialty of surgery involving the surgery of fetuses, infants, children, adolescents, and young adults....
) also perform some reconstructive procedures. The common feature is that the operation attempts to restore the anatomy or the function of the body part to normal.

Reconstructive plastic surgeons use the concept of a reconstructive ladder
Reconstructive ladder

The reconstructive ladder is a term coined by reconstructive plastic surgeons to describe levels of increasingly complex management of wounds....
 to manage increasingly complex wounds. This ranges from very simple techniques such as primary closure and dressings to more complex skin grafts, tissue expansion and free flaps.