This Is What Plastic Surgeons Want You To Know About Their Work
With the pressures of social media and the need to look good, more and more people are turning to plastic surgery. But is it as radical as the media likes to make out? Or could it become something as routine as going to the dentist?
As prices fall and more people go under the knife, plastic surgery will become more normalized. It may even undergo a name change, losing the pejorative “plastic” and be replaced with “cosmetic.” After all, virtually no cosmetic procedures involve inserting bits of plastic into people’s bodies.
Because cosmetic surgery is a private procedure, many plastic surgeons are unwilling to tell patients what they think for fear of losing business. But if they could say what they really wanted to get off their chest, what would it be?
Plastic Surgery Won’t Fix Other Problems In Your Life
Sure, cosmetic surgery may enhance your appearance. Breast augmentation may make you feel more confident at the beach. But plastic surgeons want you to know that no procedure can correct issues in your life, like a lousy job, unhealthy relationship, or poor lifestyle choices.
You Can Be Too Young For Plastic Surgery
Plastic surgery isn’t something that you can just get at any age. If you’re a minor, you’ll need consent. What’s more, it’s often hard to see the decision to go under the knife in perspective if you’re very young. You have to be careful.
Plastic Surgery Won’t Transform You Overnight
Plastic surgery is a great way to enhance your appearance; there’s no doubt. But it can’t do the impossible and make you look like an entirely different person. You’ll still be you, just an enhanced version. Changing your face, for instance, is a difficult task. Your face has an inherent, genetically-determined structure, made up of multiple layers of bone, skin, fat, and muscle. Plastic surgery can make amendments here and there to specific facial features, but it can’t turn Mick Jagger into Hailee Steinberg – it’s just not possible.
Plastic Surgery Can Change How People Perceive You
The whole point of cosmetic surgery is to change your appearance. But it can also have a knock-on effect: it can change the way you’re perceived.
As any experienced plastic surgeon knows, the way people look can affect the way others treat them. Usually, getting plastic surgery leads to an improvement in appearance, and with it, an improvement in the way that people interact with you. It can be a strange and disturbing experience, but one that might be beneficial overall.
If You’re Unhappy Within Yourself, Surgery Won’t Make You Feel Better
Plastic surgeons would love to tell you that their procedures can take away your sadness, but the truth is that they can’t.
If you’re unhappy right now, then you’ll continue to be unhappy after the surgery, even if you’ve enhanced your appearance.
The happiest people approach cosmetic surgery from a healthy place. Instead of seeing it as a way to make them happy, they see it as a project to enhance themselves and hopefully boost confidence.
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