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Information About Cosmetic Surgery
By peace | March 10, 2007
In seeking to correct such flaws as an unsightly or oversized nose, cosmetic surgery can boost the patient’s self-confidence. No longer need he fear, at work or on social occasions, that people are making derogatory remarks about his looks.
A person looks can have a direct impact on how they feel about themselves. People, who don’t like the way they look, can have a poor self-esteem and lack confidence. Whether it’s a nose that’s too big, breasts that are too small, or wrinkled, sagging skin, it is a problem that can often be solved with cosmetic surgery. There are procedures available that help people not only look better but feel better as well.
Cosmetic surgery is a form of plastic surgery. Taken from the Greek word “plastikos”, meaning to mold or give form, plastic surgery is the specialty of medicine dedicated to restoring and reshaping the human body. It includes both reconstructive and cosmetic surgery.
Cosmetic surgery enhances natural beauty. Skin, fat, and muscle are surgically removed, repositioned, reshaped, and/or tightened to rejuvenate, enhance, improve appearance, and balance body proportions. The work of a plastic surgeon is to correct embarrassing disfigurements and deformities.
People that are sensitive or concerned about some aspect of their physical appearance, turn to cosmetic surgery to give a more youthful, refreshed, and balanced look so that they will feel better about themselves. Some have noticeable changes made, others, subtle refinements.
Cosmetic surgery is a very popular avenue for personal enhancement. As for any operation, cosmetic procedures involve risk, and should therefore not be undertaken lightly. Some people appear to become addicted to cosmetic surgery, possibly because of body dysmorphic disorder. Sufficient amounts of repeated cosmetic surgery can lead to irreversible damage to the normal body structure. However, due to the high cost of repeated cosmetic surgery, this disorder is generally one limited to the wealthy. However, others have been known to take out loans for repeat procedures.
More and more people are approaching such clinics for plastic surgery or cosmetic surgery without consulting their doctor or being referred to a particular surgeon. In so doing they may be exposing themselves to the risk of an expensive and unsuccessful operation — which could result in a series of further operations to correct the one that went wrong. South Korea is known for the high prevalence of plastic surgery in its population. One conservative estimate puts at least 50% of South Korean women in their twenties have some form of plastic surgery.
What Cosmetic Surgery Can Do
There are four ways in which cosmetic surgery can help the patient:
1. It can often improve an ugly scar — although it will not remove the scar completely. This is because once the skin has been cut into deeply, the resultant scar is permanent. But cutting out a scar and sewing the skin neatly may leave the area flat and less defaced. However, some people, especially those with dark skin, develop thick, raised, itchy red scar tissue called keloid. This form of abnormal healing is often worse than the original scar. But it is a risk the patient may be prepared to take, and in most cases keloid eventually flattens and fades away. If it persists, then radiotherapy may help it fade.
2. Moles and some birthmarks can be removed with little scarring by surgery or skilled use of an argon laser.
3. Excess skin which may come with advancing years or weight loss can be removed from the face, eyelids, stomach and breasts. The post-operative scars of face-lifting and similar operations will fall into natural crease-lines, be hidden by hair or be covered by clothing.
4. The nose, chin, breasts and stomach can be reduced in size and made more symmetrical.
What Cosmetic Surgery Cannot Do
Despite popular belief to the contrary, cosmetic surgery can rarely be performed without leaving a scar. The few operations in which scars are not left are: the sandpapering of pitted facial scars (dermabrasion), which is limited to the top layers of the skin; the use of acid to tighten wrinkled skin, which causes a very mild burn; the reduction of an excessively large nose (rhinoplasty), in which the scars are inside the nose and so are not visible.
1. It cannot make people look younger than they are. But it can prevent them looking older than they are. It can turn an aged 60 years old into an well preserved 60 years old. Age is not just a matter of years. It is revealed by people’s habits, speech, posture and gait, and none of these can be made to seem younger by a surgical operation.
2. By changing a person’s face, it cannot necessarily save a marriage, increase job efficiency or alter personality — although it may make the patient a more contented, happier and therefore nicer person to be with.
3. It cannot cure mental illness or depression caused by brooding about a particular disfigurement — real or imaginary. If the patient is mentally upset by, say , an outsize nose, its reduction will not automatically remove or decrease his obsession. Instead, he may find fault with his ‘new’ nose or start to worry about some other physical defect which he may or may not have.
4. Cosmetic surgery cannot reproduce an ‘ideal’ nose from a photograph of an actor or a model in a magazine. And those who expect such perfection are doomed to disappointment.
5. It cannot remove such blemishes as a pink birthmark (haemangioma) or port-wine stain, which if large is better masked by ordinary cosmetics. It is possible to replace a large birthmark — provided it is not on the face — with skin taken from another part of the body and grafted in place. But the graft will not match the colour or texture of the rest of the skin.
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