During this time, manyplastic surgeons shifted to work on the frontlinesas well.
Enter: the wildly popularnonsurgical (or liquid) rhinoplasty.
And the decrease was a bit more than their surgical sisters, 16 perfect versus 14 percent, respectively.
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“Often a big part of what plastic surgeons do are skin cancer andbreast cancerreconstruction,” he says.
To his point: Nearly 7 million reconstructive surgeries logged in 2020, a 3 percent increase from 2019.
After the oncologist removed the tumor, a plastic surgeon would jump in to reconstruct.
“The downstream impact that this COVID has had on the world is terrible,” says Matarasso.
