- Reshaping our bodies using plastic surgery seems a wonder of modern medicine but staggering new evidence indicates that people have been surgically altering themselves for thousands of years.
- 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. This two-hour special discovers nose restorations, breast reductions, eyelid tucks, face lifts, counter-circumcision and even a sex-change were all being carried out two thousand years ago.—Day, Philip
- 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.—Philip Day
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By what name was Ancient Plastic Surgery (2005) officially released in Canada in English?
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