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Plastic surgery is an essential procedure that is performed by specialist surgeons to repair damage to skin and tissue from injuries or problems present at birth. Plastic surgery helps people who have been in accidents or born with physical impairments and deformities (burns, poorly healing scars, cleft palate, etc).

Cosmetic surgery is a procedure that people volunteer to undergo. Such procedures are usually undertaken to improve a person’s physical appearance, which, unlike plastic surgery, are just for aesthetic purposes. Despite being deemed non-essential in medicine, this kind of surgery can grant significant emotional benefits. Cosmetic surgery has the potential to visually improve areas of their body that patients may feel embarrassed, ashamed or stressed about.