What is a Plastic Surgeon? Role, Skills and Procedures

What is a Plastic Surgeon? Role, Skills and Procedures

What is a plastic surgeon?

What is a plastic surgeon?

A plastic surgeon is a highly qualified specialist who works in aesthetic and reconstructive medicine. It is important to understand that a surgeon's role is not limited to breast augmentation and rhinoplasty correction. This specialty consists of two main divisions:


  1. Aesthetic surgery
  2. Reconstructive surgery
Aesthetic surgery

When people think of plastic surgery, they usually think of aesthetic procedures. In this case, the surgeon's role is to improve the appearance of a specific organ or body part. More popular procedures include:

  • Nose reconstruction.
  • Breast augmentation or breast reduction.
  • Lifting and tightening of eyebrows and eyelids.
  • Liposuction of the bikini area
  • Buttock augmentation.

In all these cases, the surgeon eliminates only the visual defect. There is no change in function of the patient's internal organs.

Reconstructive surgery

The plastic surgeon's role is to repair damaged tissues. Patients seek help after trauma to the limbs, face, and other body parts. Surgeons also operate on congenital defects such as cleft lip and cleft palate.

Important Personal Qualities

A surgeon in this field must not be squeamish, as plastic surgery requires this. They must be infinitely compassionate and helpful. Good motor skills, absence of tremor and chronic diseases, and excellent vision are important. Hands and eyes are a surgeon's primary tools.

They meet different people daily who can be extremely sensitive, rude, or indecisive. Therefore, politeness and good manners matter. A plastic surgery specialist should show patience and listening ability. Other important traits include high orderliness, love of sports, self-care, and discipline.

  • high orderliness
  • love of sports and care for one's own health
  • ability to persuade
  • confidence in one's abilities
  • self-control
  • discipline
  • normal memory
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Positive and Negative Aspects of the Profession

Plastic surgeons face both positive and negative aspects in their profession.


Positive Aspects
  • The profession is popular and in demand
  • Specialized focus area
  • High salary due to work complexity and market demand
  • Useful work that returns patients to normal life
  • Modern technologies ease surgical intervention
  • Opportunity to study and train abroad
Negative Aspects
  • Heavy responsibility.
  • Possible complications after cosmetic surgery.
  • Not all patients are satisfied with results.
  • Frequent stressful situations.
  • Long hours and unpredictable work days.
  • High competition in education.
  • Requires at least 8 years of education.
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Procedures Performed by Plastic Surgeons

The procedures and treatments performed by plastic surgeons include the following:

Face surgery
  • Platysmaplasty
  • Endoscopic Eyebrow Lift
  • Endoscopic midface lift
  • Endoscopic forehead lift
  • Endoscopic canthoplasty
  • Endoscopic full facelift
  • SMAS facelift
  • Neck lift
  • Deep plane face and neck lift
  • High-SMAS facelift
  • Mini facelift
  • Ponytail lift
  • Upper and lower blepharoplasty
  • Atypical blepharoplasty
  • Canthopexy
  • Almond eye surgery
  • Almond eye
  • Face tightening
  • Cat eye surgery (Bella Eyes)
  • Eyelid ptosis surgery
  • Incisionless lower blepharoplasty
  • Asian blepharoplasty
  • Lip surgery and reconstruction
  • BullHorn
  • Botox
  • Facial lipofilling
  • Facial plastic and reconstructive surgery
  • Rhinoplasty
  • Ethnic rhinoplasty
  • Septorhinoplasty
  • Face Tite
  • Accu Tite
Body surgery
  • Abdominoplasty (tummy tuck)
  • Lipoabdominoplasty
  • Liposuction
  • Lipomodelling (muscle definition)
  • 6 Pack Lipo (men)
  • 2 Pack Lipo (women)
  • BodyLift
  • Extended abdominoplasty
  • Reverse abdominoplasty
  • Endoscopic abdominoplasty
  • Waist lift
  • Body contouring
  • Buttock augmentation (fat)
  • Composite buttock augmentation (implant + fat)
  • Buttock reduction
  • Arm lift
  • Leg lift
  • Calf aesthetics (implant, fat)
  • Reconstructive body surgery
  • Lipedema surgery
  • BodyTite body contouring
Breast surgery
  • Endoscopic breast augmentation
  • Breast reduction
  • Breast lift
  • Breast augmentation (fat, implant)
  • Reconstructive mammoplasty
  • Gynecomastia correction (men)

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Reconstructive operations
  • Polydactyly
  • Syndactyly
  • Burn surgery
  • Flap surgery
  • Removal of synthetic fillers from various areas
  • Migraine surgery
  • Skin grafting
  • Cleft lip
  • Cleft palate
Other procedures
  • Tonsillotomy
  • Tonsillectomy
  • Adenotomy
  • Septoplasty
  • Rhino-septoplasty
  • Otoplasty
  • Tympanotomy
  • FESS
  • Conhotomy
  • Nose surgery
  • Nose reduction
  • Laser removal of nasal polyps
  • Laser conhotomy (reduction of nasal concha)

Complications from plastic surgery by inexperienced hands are inevitable. You should only consult with professionals who know their work. Prices vary depending on the surgeon and procedure type. I, Dr. Mubariz Mammadli, perform all types of plastic surgery professionally throughout Azerbaijan.


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