title: A brief history of plastic surgery in Iran.
abstract: Although the exact time of performing plastic surgery is not addressed in the medical and historical literature, it can be supposed that these surgical procedures have a long and fascinating history.  Recent excavations provided many documents regarding the application of medical instruments, surgical and even reconstructive procedures during the pre-historic and ancient periods. Actually, there is no historical definite time-zone separating general and cosmetic operations in the pre-modern time; however, historically there have been many surgeons who tried to perform reconstructive procedures during their usual medical practice. This article presents a brief look at the history of plastic surgery form the ancient to the contemporary era, with a special focus on Iran.
authors: Department of Plastic Surgery, 15 Khordad Hospital, Shaheed Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. kalantarj@yahoo.com.
authors: Abdoljalil
authors: A
authors: Kalantar-Hormozi
mesh_terms: D003357:Cosmetic Techniques / Q000266:history*; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000266:history*; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000193:education / Q000266:history*