Talk:Reconstructive surgery

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I note that "Reconstructive Surgery" is linked to be a number of pages to do with plastic surgery (using the "what links here" function) I have put a link through to plastic surgery at the top of this page but it probbably needs a disambiguation page. I am a newbie and uncertain how to set that up. Will try --Mylesclough 05:33, 25 September 2005 (UTC) I have set up a disambiguation page Reconstructive surgery (disambiguation). It occurs to me (after the event of course) whether it wouldn't be better to have a page on Reconstructive Surgery (Orthopaedics) and link to that from the orthopaedic page. In other words the current page should have a name change to reconstructive surgery (orthopedics) and the original Reconstructive Surgery page which redirects to Plastics, be reinstated. Against that is the thought that there are other branches of surgery which think of themselves as reconstructive.--Mylesclough 06:23, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that there should not be a link placed directing this to one specialty or another as many specialities of surgery are involved in reconstructive procedures. Jwri7474 04:38, 25 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sports medicine vs. plastic surgery[edit]

First, almost the entire article, at the moment, is devoted to plastic surgery. Worse, general plastic surgery procedures (breast augmentation, etc.) are listed here as well, yet these are not reconstructive procedures. They don't belong here. Second, if this were not bad enough, major categories of reconstructive surgeries are given virtually no space at all. Reconstructive plastic surgeries include corrections for cleft palates, incomplete features, such as ears, nose; transgender genital reconstructions; post-mastectomy breast reconstruction (not merely enhancement), etc. Third, an entire category of non-plastic reconstruction surgeries is missing. A number of these arose from sports medicine (e.g., the Tommy John surgery) and involve repair, regrowth or replacement (transplantation or implantation) of ligaments, cartilage, bones or entire joints. While plastic surgery has seen growth since WWII, the arthroscopic procedures and joint replacement have only surfaced over the past quarter century. This article needs significant revision and specialist input (something I cannot provide). It also requires excision of the plastic surgery procedures that are only referred to as "reconstruction" in self-promotional literature by plastic surgeons. Alex.deWitte (talk) 03:27, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe it should be redirected to the Reconstructive surgery section of Plastic surgery. Shadyaubergine (talk) 05:23, 2 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]