Plastic surgery is a general term for operative manual and instrumental treatment which is performed for functional or aesthetic reasons. The term plastic surgery comes from the Greek word “plastikos” which means to mold or to give form.

Despite the fact that plastic surgery is belonged to some aspects of reconstructive surgery there are other branches of surgery whose main purpose is to modify a more normal part of the body. 

Reconstructive surgery, as a branch of orthopedic surgery, connected with hip replacement and other joint replacements, repair of sinews such as repair of the rotator cuff and osteotomy to repair angulated bones. The common feature is that the surgeries have trying to renew the anatomy or the function to normal.
   
Other branches of surgery such as:  dentistry, oral and maxillofacial surgery, general, gynecological surgery and pediatric surgery are also mean the reconstructive surge

Reconstructive procedures are operations that carried out to recover the form of body parts that are damaged due to injury, disease or inborn blemishes.

The general plastic surgical procedures are:   
a) the restore of terrible lacerations;
b) the fractures of the facial bones;
c) use of tissue expansion, flaps and grafts to repair  disfigurement;
d) the transplantation of muscle from the back to a  severely injured lower extremity;
e) the elimination of skin cancers;
f) the repair of cleft lips and palates.