Plastic surgery has been around for a very long time, but it only really started to develop for treatment for a wider range of people in the 19th Century. even then, the techniques used were nowhere near the standard that we expect nowadays. The methods of plastic surgery have advanced a great deal over the past few decades, and as people have in developed nations have a acquired more and more wealth, the plastic surgery industry has grown accordingly.
As it has become more widely available, the techniques used have also become cheaper, as more cost effective procedures and associated materials have been developed, so more and more people are willing to part with their hard earned cash. but what is it that has made so many people desire plastic surgery? The phenomena has become much less of a phenomena and more commonplace in recent years.
The pressure on people to look beautiful is now greater than ever, and what are considered imperfections are frowned upon a lot more, arguably, than they used to be. Of course, the image of the perfect face and body is one that is peddled by a plethora of magazines and television stations. If someone is famous at all for anything other than business or politics, then they are likely to be very attractive.
As well as general imperfections such as noses that are considered too large, people may decide to turn to cosmetic surgery in order to reduce the perceived ill effects of age. this is often focussed on loose facial skin around the chin – the solution to which might be described by some as a ‘tuck’. There may also be a desire to use cosmetic surgery to reduce the appearance of fine lines on the forehead and around the eyes. popular TV shows such as Nip/Tuck have arguably contributed to the glamorisation of plastic surgery.
To conclude, many people would agree that the ideal face and body surrounds us all the time in the form of bill boards, magazines, TV and cinema. this, combined with a dramatic increase in personal wealth of the average person, has lead to a steadily increasing number of people who have decided to take advantage of the more affordable cosmetic surgery options available; these procedures have now become far less risky than they used to be, which is why people are more and more willing to pay for the face they always wanted.
The word plastic has come to mean artificial to people in our society today, but that’s not where plastic surgery gets its name. the plastic in plastic surgery derives from plastikos, a Greek word that means to mold or shape.
Although we tend to think of cosmetic surgery when someone mentions plastic surgery, plastic surgeons have a long history of performing physical reconstruction. Skin grafts, which are a form of plastic surgery, were performed in India as long ago as 800 B.C. by the fourth century A.D., surgeons in Byzantium had developed fairly sophisticated methods of fine suturing to prevent scarring.
More significant reconstruction became part of the plastic surgery universe in the 18th century, when an American surgeon repaired a cleft palate, and in the 19th century the development of general anesthesia for surgery helped make plastic surgery more widely acceptable once people realized they no longer had to be wide awake to experience pain. Surgery in general became more commonplace as antibiotics and an understanding of the importance of modern sanitary measures made all forms of surgery less dangerous.
World War I, which maimed thousands of soldiers, was the crucible in which many plastic surgery specialists were formed. Doctors developed methods for reconstructing ears, noses, jaws and eyes, and compared notes across national boundaries after the war.
New techniques and materials are continually being developed in plastic surgery that can repair an ever-wider range of physical deformities, and many that make cosmetic surgery procedures easier, more comfortable, and more affordable than ever before.
In America and throughout the world, both men and women are expected to look healthy and young well into their 30’s, 40’s, 50’ and 60’s. While diet and exercise can play a large role in looking younger, the use of modern cosmetic surgery has become one of the most popular ways to beat back the clock. getting surgical cosmetic procedures has become very commonplace, with an ever-growing percentage of the population opting in to get cosmetic surgery. yet there is a large divide between women and men, and what procedures are most popular for each of the sexes.
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons today released top line data from its 2011 plastic Surgery Statistics Report. The latest data shows breast augmentation is still the most common cosmetic surgery procedure for 2011. There were 307, 180 breast augmentation procedures performed in 2011, up 3.7% since 2010. many of the common signs of aging that occur to a woman’s breasts as she gets older can be very devastating to her self esteem. yet with today’s modern surgical options, there is a viable option for women to change the way they look.
Second to breast augmentation, rhinoplasty is the most popular cosmetic procedure, with a total of 243,772 procedures being performed in 2011. The growing number of cosmetic procedures is an indication that even in this tough economic climate, more consumers are choosing cosmetic surgery as a way to look younger and feel better about themselves. we certainly see the same trend in our practice. More and more women are seeking improvements in their look. we support this trend as many of these procedures equate to improvements in their overall self-confidence and quality of life.
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PARIS – From US “Botox parties” to Asia’s craze for eyelid jobs or Brazilian bum lifts, millions now reshape their bodies through cosmetic surgery each year.but the booming industry is battling a Wild West of rogue practices, cruelly highlighted by the French breast implant scandal.Until the 1990s, “there was a veil of secrecy around cosmetic procedures,” says Sander Gilman, psychiatry professor at Emory University in the United States, and author of several books on cosmetic surgery.In the 21st century world, you can fly to Turkey or India for a cut-price breast job, sign up for a surgical full-body makeover on reality TV, or curl up in front of an episode of the hit plastic surgery-themed series “Nip/Tuck”.what happened in between? How did practices until recently seen as shameful, unethical, even taboo, become close to commonplace, in a rapid and remarkable shift in values?The short answer, by and large, is Botox – or Botulinum toxin – a poisonous substance which when injected in small doses masks wrinkles by temporarily paralysing the facial muscles, and which became widely available in the 1990s.”Suddenly cosmeticians were doing Botox injections, people were having Botox parties injecting each other,” said Gilman.”Botox caused a ripple effect where the next stage – having surgical procedures – became more acceptable,” he said. “A facelift became something you talked about. Cosmetic surgery became ordinary.”Worldwide in 2010, plastic surgeons carried out an estimated 18.5 million operations, according to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS), a non-profit group representing surgeons in 93 countries.The United States tops the list, with 3.3 million operations, followed by Brazil, then China, Japan and India, according to ISAPS projections based on a survey of 698 surgeons worldwide.half are for full surgery, with liposuction and breast augmentation the most popular operations, while the rest are for non-surgical procedures.The fastest growth area for the multi-billion-dollar market, these non-surgical treatments include injections of Botox, of so-called “skin fillers” such as hyaluronic acid or body fat, and a dozen procedures from laser hair removal to chemical peeling.The true figures are probably far higher since ISAPS only counts work carried out by registered plastic surgeons.”The problem worldwide is that a very, very large number of people who are not educated in surgery are starting to offer aesthetic surgery,” said the president of ISAPS, the Swiss-based plastic surgeon Jan Poell.Today, general practitioners can legally offer breast augmentations or liposuctions, without specific training. The same applies to beauticians, who can legally perform non-surgical work such as skin filler injections.”We see catastrophes on a monthly basis: asymmetries, expulsions of implants, facial palsy, eyelids that can’t close anymore,” resulting from botched operations performed in places such as Taiwan or Eastern Europe, Poell said.Skin fillers – which like breast implants are not considered to be medicines – are a grey area, with Europe lagging behind the United States when it comes to regulating what products can be injected and by whom.Cosmetic surgeons meeting in Paris on January 27 for the International Master Class on Ageing (IMCAS) congress are set to release a study on complications linked to injections, as part of a push for tighter regulation.According to the French sanitary authority AFSSAPS, between 0.1 and one percent of patients suffer serious side effects after a skin filler injection.because most skin filler products have temporary effects, the likelihood of a full-blown sanitary scandal is limited.”Most of the fillers are like Botox: by the time you get to court, they’ve worn off,” said consultant plastic surgeon Douglas McGeorge, who sits on the council of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS).but when it comes to surgery there are horror stories – at least half a dozen of them reported in recent years – of people dying following backstreet cosmetic operations, often as a result of complications from anaesthesia.there are no global figures on cases of botched cosmetic surgery, but the unfolding breast implant scandal has spotlighted how badly things can go wrong when dishonesty is thrown into the bargain.some 300,000 women in 65 countries are estimated to have received implants produced by the now defunct French company, Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), which allegedly used an illegal industrial-grade gel that investigators say has led to abnormally high rupture rates.France has already advised the removal of the implants, while 13 countries in Europe and in Latin America have urged women to seek regular check-ups.Poell believes we are unlikely to witness another implant scandal: “Everybody will be very, very careful. And if people become more alert, the scandal could even have a positive side effect.”To combat rogue practice, ISAPS runs public education programmes and offers insurance for consumers who seek surgery aboard, guaranteeing treatment for possible complications so long as they use an ISAPS-approved surgeon.as a rule of thumb, Poell said, low cost surgery – wherever it is offered – should set off alarm bells.”Good plastic surgery has the same price everywhere,” he said. “If you can get a breast augmentation in another country for less than what I pay for an implant, then something is wrong.- AFP/al
<a href="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/beautynfashion/view/1176539/1/.htmltag:news.google.com,2005:cluster=http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/beautynfashion/view/1176539/1/.htmlFri, 13 Jan 2012 07:18:31 GMT”>Cosmetic surgery gone wild – Channel NewsAsia
