Being able to heal and change the physical appearance of someone's face has given hope and confidence to many people. However, during the “Middle Ages and Renaissance, the spread of Christianity prohibited any type of surgical intervention on the body, as dictated by Pope Innocent III.” This was felt very strongly, but this did not stop the development and research towards plastic surgery by Sushruta due to her beliefs, her book was very important having covered hundreds of procedures and diseases. Plastic surgery has influenced the world nowadays, so you can imagine how big a breakthrough it was in the 6th century, it was very important and had a huge impact.