The ever growing demand for plastic surgery services – surgical removal or correction of physical defects – is determined by various industrial and social factors. A turbulent development of sciences and technologies has made the procedures less risky and more effective. On the other hand, society dictates its own rules: it creates models of a successful individual, where personal image and appearance play an important role.
Life expectancy, its quality and beauty standards have also changed – it is now fashionable to be young, healthy and attractive. Society seems to have become obsessed with the fear of getting old. For many, the phrase “grow old nice” would probably mean plastic surgery procedures to conceal the signs of aging. The message of almost every advertisement promoting beauty and body-care products is the claim of a beautiful woman that she is “worth it” and that it is the reason why everyone admires her. In a society where social success, in many cases, is decided by external attractiveness, it is difficult to resist those accepted and deeply rooted views. Although passively, people tend to support the ideals of the society they live in.
On the other hand, if a person feels young and energetic, why he or she must look of their age when they feel like twenty? The decision to make one’s appearance match their inner wellbeing may have very positive effects allowing the person feel more comfortable both physically and emotionally. However, people often blame their appearance for their misfortunes; and hoping to change their life by changing their looks, supposedly to be blamed for all the failures, find themselves yet more disappointed in the end. Sometimes people must change themselves but not appearance.
A plastic surgeon is often a good psychologist: having found out the true reason for the person’s self-dissatisfaction, they will surely try to persuade him or her from the operation if it won’t solve the problem anyway.
Yet another case is when people put up with the way they look like and even manage to turn their physical defects into advantages. It may mean that they are afraid to change something in themselves, influenced by certain convictions or the fear of surgical operations, or simply lack information of the possibility of such operations. Meanwhile removal of absolutely obvious defects like a large papilloma on the eyelid or nevus, covering half of the face skin, is not so complicated, and the face would only benefit from it.
Plastic surgery is a serious and subtle art, helping people adapt in their environment more easily and feel happier. Specialists of plastic surgery can eliminate such congenital defects as harelip, blood vessel nevus, sticking-out ears, etc. These defects are easily noticed, especially by children, who sometimes make the life for the person having such defects an undeserved hell.
Plastic surgery also performs the reconstructive function, when, for example, after a car accident, the patient is “collected of separate parts”, and his or her appearance is returned former attractiveness.
The necessity of operation is determined not by age but by the state of appearance. Currently, there is a dominant tendency to have plastic surgery procedures done at younger age, i.e. about 30, when the skin is still elastic, wrinkles are not deep, and the process of regeneration is faster – so treatment is more effective.
Before making the final decision to have a plastic operation done, the person must weigh all the possible risks and necessarily consult a specialist. No one ever can guarantee a 100-percent success. Each organism is individual, and the reactions to surgical intervention may be unforeseen. The risks include the body’s rejection of an implant, allergy to anesthesia, post-operation pains, prolonged regeneration, appearance of haematomes, etc. Nobody is going to dissuade you, but you just have to be sure of your decision. You have to understand your responsibility for the agreement to be operated and be informed of the possible consequences and inconveniences after the operation. That is precisely why you will be asked to sign a written agreement specifying possible post-operation complications. A patient and the clinics agree that neither of them will have any claims to each other.
No plastic surgery specialist will take up to make a part of body beautiful in general sense. If the nose needs correction, it is important that it looks nice not as an element on its own but as part of the face, matching other parts and features of the face. It is important to give an overall harmonious appearance.
Although the possibilities of plastic surgery are not limitless, they are still huge. The main procedures include face and neck plastics, temple and lower face part lifting when fallen cheeks are lifted thus returning the face its oval shape. Blepharoplasty enables to change the shape of lower and upper eyelids or remove the pouches under the eyes. Rhinoplasty helps to change the shape of nose, and otoplasty corrects sticking-out ears. Plastic surgery can increase the chin and the bend of cheeks, remove or reduce a double chin. Plastic surgery procedures enable to change the shape of breasts and buttocks, remove fat from belly, arms and hips. As you can see, the list is really long… |
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