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Welcome
to our website and thank you for your interest in
the IPRAS activities and services. 32,000 Plastic and
Aesthetic
Surgeons, 35,000 residents in training, 30,000 Hand
Surgeons,
1,000 Micro Surgeons and 1,000 Burn Specialists
from 97 nations
are united in IPRAS.
Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic
Surgery is a young
and innovative specialty. Due to the rapid development
of
microsurgery, we now have the chance to cure patients
with
large defects such as transplantation of the limb and
face.
Training in aesthetic surgery is inseparably related
to
reconstructive surgery. This is why many European nations
only allow plastic surgeons to perform aesthetic surgery.
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With great joy, we present the
humanitarian work of IPRAS. The majority of our
members are involved in charitable projects: they spend their
vacations doing
volunteer work in third world countries. IPRAS has a new initiative, Women for Women
that aims to supply help by female surgeons to patients suffering from disfiguring and
socially excluding sequalae of trauma that often occurs out of ethnic or social
traditions or typical environmental conditions that women in several countries are
subjected to.
Membership in an IPRAS-recognized
society means an obligation to practice our
high ethical standards.
Wherever you go for your plastic
surgery, you are in good hands with IPRAS
members.
-- Dr. Marita EISENMANN-KLEIN, IPRAS General Secretary
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