Just because you could afford it doesn’t mean you should go for it. A lot of celebrities have gone under the knife to fix something that wasn’t wrong in the first place. They wanted to perfect themselves but instead they end up looking ten times worse. When Tara Reid opted to have liposuction, she ended up having the stomach of a wrinkly old lady, she would have been better off doing it the normal way through dieting and working out. Hillary Duff had her normal lips pimped and now she looks like a horse. Lesson? There are no instant gratification and, love your body coz its not something you can play with like clay with a surgeon.

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There are two types of plastic surgery: Reconstructive and cosmetic. Reconstructive surgery from the word reconstruction deals with repair. If one had an operation that resulted to a deformation, like that of a breast cancer patient who needs to have her mammary glands back, then that is where reconstructive surgery comes in. Cosmetic surgery is what we often call vanity operation, it is done to improve physical disposition. This type of surgery has two types: Surgical and non surgical. Surgical includes rhynoplasty (reshaping of the nose) breast reduction or enlargement, liposuction among others. Non surgical procedures includes dermabrassion (lightening of scars), laser peeling and other skin oriented operation meant for that flawless look.

We know that surgery is a very expensive not to mention lucrative procedure, which is why it is imperative that the public makes sure that the doctors who does them are still bounded by ethical behaviors. In the case of plastic surgeons, they should put it among themselves to make sure that they only accept patients who either have major deformities or have justified the need for a plastic surgery. They neglect the fact that there are other options to looking better, how many doctors actually refer their patients to a therapist or the gym to boost self esteem the none-surgical way?

There is a petition to band teens from resorting to plastic surgery. This is after 306,000 of them has willingly gone under the knife to alter a body part two usually breast enlargements and nose jobs and butt enhancements. The call to ban plastic procedures was made to establish to put a stop to the growing concern over the young public’s obsession over media depicted standard of perfection. Another issue is the fact that surgery at such a young age could pose as a threat to one’s natural growth. It is a fact that the body, seeing that it is still considered to be in its developing stage during teenage years is still bound to take on a new form as they reach their 20s, the procedure might do more harm than good in the end.

Cosmetic surgery should be the last option for anyone who wants a physical make over and with good reasons. If you think going under the knife is tough, wait until you experience the aftermath. The after effect of cosmetic surgery is no different from a major surgery, patients are made invalid and suffer from wide range of side effects for a period of time, and as if that is not enough, the maintenance is even harder not to mention more expensive than the actual procedure itself. So if you’re thinking that liposuction is the easy way to losing weight, remember that the procedure was made to be maintained with diet and exercise after wards, so if you’re too lazy to do both now, forget about surgery.

Just as you thought the little veins inside your legs that cause a great deal of pain cannot be treated, then you’re wrong.

Before, doctors only used lasers to treat the large visible veins on your legs called varicose veins. They never used it on smaller sized veins because they fear that the laser was too strong for the little veins to handle (the veins might burn, and rupture in the process). A new study shows that with the use of local anesthesia, targeting these small veins is now possible. The job of anesthesia is to wrap the vein, and make it less vulnerable to the powerful laser.

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