1. The History and Development of Modern Day Plastic Surgery
... skin grafts and often reconstruction surgery, it did not become effective until the late 1880's. In fact, John Mettauer began performing plastic surgery in 1827, when he did the first cleft palate operation in the United States with tools that he designed. However it was not until the World War of 1914 that plastic surgery really took off. World War 1 advanced ... ...
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