Although plastic surgery is a term that we often hear nowadays, you will be surprised to know that it has been existence for centuries now. Early historical references to some kind of skin grafts being performed by an ancient physician named Sushruta in India somewhere during 800 B.C. Similarly there are references to the Greeks performing some forms of plastic surgery during ancient times. Newer techniques are evolving in the field of plastic surgery, almost each passing day. In a field that is usually driven by the aging population, procedures such as face lifts, nose jobs and eyelid shaping are finding an increasing number of takers these days.