Ancient Plastic Surgery
Reshaping our bodies using plastic surgery seems a wonder of modern medicine. But new evidence suggests that people have been surgically altering themselves for thousands of years.
Natasha Hidvegi, a young surgeon, is fascinated by the fact that modern techniques and tools were used by early doctors and, traveling to India, Egypt and Rome to quiz experts, she investigates how far each civilization had advanced towards today’s plastic surgery. This feature length documentary discovers that nose restorations, breast reductions, eyelid tucks, face lifts, counter-circumcision and even a sex-change were all being carried out thousands of years ago.
