As long ago as 2000 BC, surgeons in India were carrying out reconstructive techniques like skin grafts. It wasn’t until the late 18th century that western physicians traveled to India to learn about procedures like rhinoplasty. A surgeon named Joseph Constantine Carpue spend two decades in India learning plastic surgery methods. Carpue returned to the west and performed the first major plastic surgery in the western world in 1815.
The ancient Egyptians and Romans also carried out plastic surgery procedures. Romans were able to do such procedures as repairing ears that had been damaged from about the first century B.C. Continue reading ‘When was Plastic Surgery First Invented?’ »