This gave doctors a chance to practice and perfect reconstructive surgical procedures.

This is a logical prefix, as parts of the body are remade or reformed during most reconstructive and cosmetic surgical procedures.

The most common reconstructive procedures are tumor removal, laceration repair, scar repair, hand surgery, and breast reduction plasty.

Plastic surgeons use cosmetic surgical principles in all reconstructive surgical procedures as well as isolated operations to improve overall appearance.

The number of reconstructive procedures performed was 1,250,000 in 1990, double the approximately 640,000 cosmetic procedures, according to the plastic surgeons society.

The researchers considered women who got implants for purely cosmetic reasons - not as part of a reconstructive procedure.

A documentary film crew is chronicling a teenager named Kenny (Khleo Thomas) with a major facial deformity who opts to undergo a dramatic reconstructive procedure.

Free tissue transfer is a surgical reconstructive procedure using microsurgery.

"Cigna pays for all of the reconstructive procedures," she said.