en عمومى General Short Communication Short Communication <strong>BACKGROUND</strong><br> There is need for a coding system for categorizing the plastic surgery conditions to facilitate efficient data exchange, retrieval, research, time-series analysis, clinical audit, insurance and legal purposes. This is a pilot study to assess feasibility of newly proposed 5-D coding system in categorizing the plastic surgery conditions.<br> <strong>METHODS</strong><br> Retrospective analysis of records of plastic surgery patients visited in last 15 months was done. Each patient was assigned a code according to the newly proposed 5-D system of coding and recorded in excel sheet. Data analysis was done to categorize various plastic surgery conditions. Results of analysis were shown to 11 plastic surgeons and their feedback was taken.<br> <strong>RESULTS</strong><br> Feedback taken from participants showed 5-D coding system was useful and practically easy to categorize the plastic surgery conditions.<br> <strong>CONCLUSION</strong><br> Proposed new 5-D coding system is easy and useful in categorization of plastic surgery conditions. Coding system, Plastic surgery, Categorization 388 393 http://wjps.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-500-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Saurabh Gupta drsaurabh2007@gmail.com 10031947532846007330 10031947532846007330 No Senior Resident, Department of Plastic Surgery, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India. Ravi Kumar Chittoria drchittoria@yahoo.com 10031947532846007331 10031947532846007331 Yes Professor, Department of Plastic Surgery, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India. ORCID: 0000-0002-4637-7503 Vinayak Chavan dr.vkchavan@gmail.com 10031947532846007332 10031947532846007332 No Senior Resident, Department of Plastic Surgery, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India. Abhinav Aggarwal abhi2128@gmail.com 10031947532846007333 10031947532846007333 No Senior Resident, Department of Plastic Surgery, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India. Chirra Likhitha Reddy drlikhithareddy@gmail.com 10031947532846007334 10031947532846007334 No Senior Resident, Department of Plastic Surgery, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India. Padmalakshami Bharathi Mohan pebeyem@gmail.com 10031947532846007335 10031947532846007335 No Senior Resident, Department of Plastic Surgery, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India. Shijina Koliath chinuvmmc@gmail.com 10031947532846007336 10031947532846007336 No Senior Resident, Department of Plastic Surgery, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India. Imran Pathan pathan.drimran@gmail.com 10031947532846007337 10031947532846007337 No Senior Resident, Department of Plastic Surgery, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India.