Cosmetic Surgery: Facts and types of Cosmetic Surgery
Cosmetic surgery is the surgical procedure which changes, enhances or restores your looks. There may be any reason due to which you want to change your appearance; cosmetic surgery comes to your help.
Reasons for choosing Cosmetic surgery:
There may be many reasons for getting cosmetic surgery done. People meet accidents and get ugly scars. They may get burns or they may have some birth defect or they want to improve their body part. Cosmetic surgery can help them come over these appearance defects.
We live in social environment and our looks and personality very much influence our social bonding. If we feel happy with our look, we feel confident. For some people, good looks boost their confidence. These things are very important for some people and affect their mode of functioning. And in some professions where looks play major role, cosmetic surgery comes to great help.
Though you can enhance your looks a great deal with proper diet and exercising, but cosmetic surgery is the only procedure when you want to change the specific aspect of your body or appearance.
Deciding whether to have Cosmetic Surgery or Not?
Cosmetic surgery is not the answer for the people who are not satisfied with their overall appearance because surgery is done to correct or enhance one particular aspect of their appearance. If you get one surgery after another, it will be a risky and damaging option for your body apart from being expensive.
While deciding for cosmetic surgery, have complete information about the procedure and risks involved. Any kind of surgery has some kind of risk involved in it and complications can occur at any stage. Talk to your cosmetologist and know about expected results, risks and complications involved.
One major risk of cosmetic surgery is it may produce unexpected results. You may become even unhappy with results of cosmetic surgery. Then you have to undergo corrective treatments. But results of cosmetic surgery are often irreversible.
General type of cosmetic Surgeries
Reconstructive surgery : There are some conditions like scars, malformed body part caused by injury, disease or birth defect, which greatly affect your daily life, social or employment opportunities. You tend to lose your self-esteem. In these conditions, reconstructive surgery is performed to improve the condition.
Elective Cosmetic Surgery: Some people want to enhance their natural looks like large nose, wrinkle or small breasts. Though these are not defects but for some people changing these may boost their self-esteem.
Some Popular Cosmetic surgeries:
Face-lift or rhytidectomy: T his kind of surgery tightens the muscles by removing excess skin and fat and makes the face smoother. You can see the results at jawline and neck.
Nose Job or Rhinoplasty: If you want to change the appearance of nose or improve breathing mechanism and nasal function then rhinoplasty is the right procedure. During this procedure, cartilage and bones are removed or rearranged to give new shape to the nose.
Eyelid Surgery or Blepharoplasty: This procedure corrects the drooping eyes, puffiness and removes bulging eye bags. In this surgery excess skin, muscles and fat from eyelids are removed to change its appearance.
Breast enlargement or augmentation: During this procedure, to enlarge the breast, an implant is placed under the breast tissue or the chest muscles.
Breast reduction: It is another technique to reduce the size of the breast. It removes unwanted breast tissue and lifts the breast.
Liposuction : There is some kind of stubborn fat in obese people which cannot be done away with dieting or exercising. Liposuction removes it by suction procedure. The main purpose of this procedure is to reshape the body part rather than reducing the weight. Women often choose liposuction for reducing fat from neck, thigh, underarms, hips, belly and knees while men, mostly go for removing fat from breasts, back, waist, belly or neck.
Tummy Tuck or Abdominoplasty: This procedure is useful to remove bulge on tummy or belly. It removes excess of fat and skin from the abdominal part and makes the abdominal muscles tight. This procedure also aims to reshape the area rather than reducing the weight.
Hair Transplantation Surgery : Hairs are transplanted from one place to another to cover any bald patches.
