Plastic Surgery

Plastic surgery is a surgical specialty concerned with the correction or restoration of form and function, and can deal with problems such as burns, surgery on hands and limbs and aesthetic surgery.

Notable Plastic surgeons in Grey's Anatomy/Private Practice

 * Dr. Mark Sloan (Former Head of Plastic Surgery at Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital)
 * Dr. Lexie Grey (Former Resident Plastic Surgeon at Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital)
 * Dr. Jackson Avery (Attending Plastic Surgeon at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital)
 * Dr. Lauren Boswell (Visiting Craniofacial Specialist at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital)

Surgical Procedures

 * Abdominoplasty (or a "Tummy-Tuck"): Reshaping of the abdomen.
 * Reconstructive surgery: Correcting problems which were congenital or acquired through trauma, commonly breast reconstruction (after a breast has been removed due to cancer) and facial reconstruction (after trauma)
 * Rhinoplasty (or "nose job"): Reshaping of the nose.

Season 4

 * Ectopia Cordis Closure (Piece of My Heart): Addison returns to Seattle Grace to deal with a pregnant women who's child is diagnosed with ectopia cordis - his heart has grown outside his body. Addison delivers the child, Hahn works to place the heart inside the chest and Sloan closes using a skin flap grown from the child's own skin.