Plastic surgery is a special medical technology that uses a number of surgical and nonsurgical methods to change the appearance of a person's body. Plastic surgery methodology include both cosmetic beautification as well as functionally reconstructive operations.

Plastic surgery is also referred as cosmetic surgery.

Cosmetics surgical procedures involve both aesthetic and functional elements. Here plastic is not connected with the synthetic polymer material. Surgeons typically mould and reshape the tissues of the body such as bone, cartilage, muscle, fat, and skin.

Plastics surgery is generally done to improve the physical appearance, restoring impaired function and acquired deformity.