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What do you think is the best subspecialty of plastic surgery?

I'm not very interested in Cosmetics. What do you think is the best/most interesting subspecialty of plastic surgery?

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1. Remaking/reshaping the cleft palates & harelips & birth-defective faces of little kids before they're old enuf to go to school...to transform their outsides to match their beautiful innocent insides. Satisfaction--enormous; Profits--perhaps very few. Pediatric plastic surgery, I'd put that up there with the angels. Personal reason: I went to grade school wayyyyyy back before there was such a thing as microsurgical techniques for correcting birth defects in children, and remember being in classes with kids with facial deformities--most of which they were born with [a couple of burn cases, perhaps] and remember the hell they lived in, and how nobody wanted to sit with them at recess or lunchtime because of how they looked. Nowadays, these conditions can be fixed early in life with wondrous technical skill. I'd go with that subspecialty for every reason in the world!
2. What an awesome idea that the other postee has! How about reconstructive surgery and working with the non-profit organization 'Operation Smile' which does provide reconstructive/corrective surgery (or as much as possible) for children with congenital (birth) disfigurements such as a cleft palate and other facial differences.