Abstract
Although modern facial plastic surgery was born in the field hospitals of World War I, the treatment of facial soft tissue trauma ironically receives short shrift in many contemporary textbooks of facial plastic surgery. Nonetheless, our modern aesthetic and reconstructive surgical armamentarium was first forged in the crucible of war through the efforts of battlefield surgeons such as Sir Harold Gillies to reconstruct facial features torn apart by sophisticated new military weapons. The widespread use of anesthesia and antisepsis, the development of the light bulb and sterile cat gut suture, and the unprecedented interaction of surgeons from many different specialties enabled advances in reconstructive techniques during and immediately after World War I.
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