Research progress in cosmetic and plastic surgery of female external genitalia

Abstract

Cosmetic and plastic surgery of female external genitalia is a new subject which adopts surgical or non-surgical methods to rectification of vulva and vagina.With the social progress, genitalia plastic surgery has also achieved a dramatic of development, various new technologies has been applied, and women’s genitalia plastic surgery has shown a good prospect. This review focuses on new concepts and techniques of surgery and non-surgical cosmetic surgery of female external genitalia, including the surgical methods, such as mons pubic plasty, clitoral hood plasty, labia minora reduction surgery, labia majora reduction surgery, labia majora augmentation surgery, perineoplasty, vaginoplasty, and non-surgical methods like G-spot augmentation, orgasm shot therapy, photoelectricity-energy based therapy, etc. It could help plastic surgeons and gynecologists to understand the concepts and therapeutics better in this field. Key words: Genitalia, female; Plastic surgery; Surgical procedures, operative; Non-surgical procedure