In contrast, plastic surgery repairs the defects in order to reconstruct the normal appearance and function. This procedure repairs birth defects, burns, disease, or trauma.

Plastic surgery is a reconstructive procedure. Both plastic and reconstructive surgeries are one and the same.
The types of plastic surgery include:

• Burn repair surgery
• Scar revision surgery
• Lower extremity reconstruction
• Breast reconstruction
• Hand surgery
• Congenital defect repair – extremity defect repair and cleft palate