Innovative Care Is Helping Iraq War's Injured Survive

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Atlanta plastic surgeon Dr. Edwin C. Pound, who travels on volunteer missions each year to third world countries to perform reconstruction and repair surgeries, said war is an unfortunate but good teacher for surgeons.

"You see injuries you would never imagine otherwise and surgeons are placed in the position of having to find ways to do the reconstructions," Pound said. "The very growth of plastic surgery, in fact, grew out of reconstructive techniques developed in World War II to help soldiers with craniofacial injuries."

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For more on reconstructive surgeries, visit American Society of Plastic Surgeons.