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Beauty is a commodity

Since the growth of popularity of cosmetic surgery, people with blue- or pink-collar incomes are embracing vanity medicine. Surely, advent of reality shows like Extreme Makeover? and the popularization of non-surgical treatments like lasers and beauty injections were other important factors for growth of plastic surgery market. Society is all the more becoming beauty obsessed. When one wants to achieve recognition, or even to obtain a job in todays competing environment, especially huge considering economic downturn, he has to be beautiful!

But as with any kind of surgery, plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures do have risks. A cosmetic procedure is done to alter or improve a well-functioning body feature. On contrast, plastic surgery is employed to restore the appearance of faculties with defects or for an aspect to regain its lost function due to congenital defects. If you are just dissatisfied with own appearance, you may seek out cosmetic surgery, but if you want to treat, for example, varicose veins, look for plastic surgeon.

General risks for cosmetic/plastic surgery:
The skin is excised (surgically removed) and this may affect the cosmetic outcome;
- Asymmetry: moderate or severe asymmetries may require a second surgery. Mild asymmetry is normal;
- Slow Healing: due to age, skin type, failure to follow doctor’s advice or factors beyond anyone’s control;
- Irregularities, dimples, puckers, and divots: can be due to surgeon error, healing irregularities or body make-up;
For women, additional risk factors include taking oral contraceptives or having recently ceased taking them, undergoing hormone-replacement therapy

Consider these factors, looking for plastic surgery clinics.

Its no doubt, list of pre-surgery and after-surgery procedures may be a subject for a separate article. However, most surgeons advise patients try to leave these problems for surgery clinics. It would be definitely good to select clean, safe clinic location (preferably on seaside, where air itself is a treatment) and to spend there little time before and after plastic surgery. One of specific reasons for this, for example, is necessity to evaluate your personal risks for developing blood clots, taking special anti-clotting medications and wearing compression devices.
Villa Medicas (http://villamedica.com) operative surveys have cited that cosmetic procedures bring list of benefits:
- 80% enhance interpersonal relationships, even if they have previous dating or work experince
But it is important that you have realistic expectations about cosmetic surgery. It is about improvement but not perfection. You will never reach absolute beauty, but loving own beauty, you will reach harmony.

Plastic surgery expert

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