Reparative plastic surgery: an overview of the Unified Health System

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: A repairing plastic surgery is an area of medical practice that has the purpose of correcting deformities or funcional deficits (partial or total) that require surgical resources for plastic surgery, such as the anatomy as close as possible to the original. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this article is to expose the panorama of reconstructive plastic surgery in the Unified Health System (SUS) in 2019, in order to compare its findings with the official specifications of the year 2009. METHOD: A cross-sectional, quantitative study based on data of the Informatics Department of the Unified Health System in the form of a simple frequency analysis regarding hospitalizations for plastic surgery procedures. RESULTS: Data covering 4.5% of all surgical repair procedures performed in Brazil in 2019 were collected, being the most prevalent among these, 72.33% breast reconstructive plastic surgeries, 10.22% cicatricial retraction correction 6.25% labiopalatais, 5.26% dermolipectomies not related to bariatric surgery, 4.1% after bariatric surgery, 1.35% of congenital skull and buccomaxillofacial deformities, and 0.49% of facial lipoatrophy and lipodystrophies. CONCLUSION: There is an increase in reparative surgeries between 2009 and 2019 (from 5.07% to 12.09%). However, the proposed scenario can not be accurately performed due to the various unavailability and non-specifications provided by the Informatics Department of the Unified Health System regarding the data recording of the same.