23 Questions to ask your Plastic Surgeon
The questions set out below are a guide to information you should obtain during a consultation for breast enlargement. During the consultation a good surgeon will cover all of this information, the check list is a final check to be done near the completion of your consultation. Read more
An investigating into the cosmetic surgery industry goes to air on the ABC’s Four Corners program this coming Monday 23 October, at 8.30pm in each state.
To read a synopsis of the program.
From a personal perspective I welcome a balanced investigative commentary on the cosmetic surgery industry. It is important that the public understand that there is a difference in the training of a plastic surgeon who performs cosmetic surgery. As the promotion sates:
“In most states it is legal for an ordinary GP to call him or herself a cosmetic surgeon and start wielding the scalpel on patients, or consumers. Many do. ”
(Peter Dixon)These “cosmetic doctors” do not participate in stringent review. Their thought and work are not overseen by their peers and Royal colleges of education.(RACS.)
The training and review systems that plastic surgeon participate in are a major safeguard to the community and patients excellence of care.
All to often I see patients who have been advised by the “makeover shows or cosmetic doctors” these patients understanding of what they are considering is flawed and over simplified.”
“Whilst good plastic ( and for that read cosmetic surgery as they are one and the same) surgery can be a life changing positive experience a poor or inadequate result can leave the individual in anguish.”
Going to a plastic surgeon who specialises in cosmetic surgery and even consulting other plastic surgeon is the minimum you should do when considering the surgery of change…Then and only then can you know that you have obtained the opinion most appropriate to your needs and expectations.
Having cosmetic surgery won’t magically change your life, but it could improve your mood and your quality of life; it also might help you quit taking antidepressant medications. Those are the findings of two separate studies presented at the American Society of Plastic Surgeons Plastic Surgery 2006 conference in San Francisco.
Self-esteem was boosted 99 percent of those not taking antidepressants before surgery and 98 percent of those who did take antidepressants before surgery cited better self-esteem,
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A New book which features essays by 11 UCSC professors
By Scott Rappaport
Tattooing . . . piercing . . . anorexia . . . self-cutting . . . plastic surgery . . . body-building . . . the use of life extension technologies–these are all forms of body modification that have become increasingly prevalent in today’s culture and mainstreamed in popular media. Read more
