title: [Plastic surgery: is it still medicine?].
abstract: Esthetic surgery is today a commercial product. However, it remains a real surgical practice with its results but also its complications and the difficulty to have the good indication in order to avoid the possible excess dictated by the medias.
authors.affiliation: Service de Chirurgie Plastique, CHU Brugmann, ULB, Bruxelles.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: De Mey
mesh_terms: D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000592:standards*