Dear colleagues!

The congresses we held in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 found a receptive audience among representatives of all surgical specialties. And there was a reason for that. No surgical specialty can do without reconstructive operations based on plastic surgery methods and techniques. It is plastic surgery that teaches us a decent and careful attitude to tissues and shows us their potential.

As early as in the mid-1970s, Academy Fellow Boris Petrovskiy said that modern surgery “should be reconstructive, not resective”. And the surgery of the 21st century appears to be committed to this principle.

Owing to poor work of bush league journalists, plastic surgery is generally understood as aesthetic surgery nowadays, and quite a few people do know that aesthetic surgery is a just a small subdiscipline of plastic surgery. Plastic surgery is mainly focused on treatment of anatomical and functional defects of the surface of the body, head, and limbs, as well as of subjacent tissues, caused by congenital anomalies, acute injuries and their consequences, diseases, and surgical interventions aimed at treating a particular pathology (iatrogenic defects). Not only do the above pathological conditions cause persistent disability of the patients, but also drastically reduce their quality of life, which has a huge impact on their social status.

Thus, the National Congress on Plastic Surgery, Aesthetic Medicine, and Cosmetology is a platform for sharing of professional information between professionals of different specialties whose activities are related to plastic surgery, medical aesthetics, and cosmetology in one way or another.

More than 4,000 plastic surgeons, oral and maxillofacial surgeons, otorhinolaryngologists, ophthalmic surgeons, combustiologists, trauma orthopaedists, oncologists, gynaecologists, urologists, neurologists, anesthesiologists, dermatovenerologists, and cosmetologists will be among the participants of the congress.