Friday, March 21, 2008

Plastic Surgery Gone Wrong Not Just News

As with just about anything in life, there are many things that can go wrong with plastic surgery. But just as we don't hear news reports about the millions of planes that have taken off and landed safely, there is not the same attention devoted to the many success stories of cosmetic surgeries as there is to plastic surgery gone wrong. There are risks involved with this type of surgery, as there are in undergoing operations of any kind, but the usual difference is that while no doctor can force a patient to have surgery of any kind - even if it is a life-saving operation to remove a cancerous tumor - plastic surgery is generally a little more elective than the other.

And perhaps this is why we seem to delight in hearing about plastic surgery gone wrong. Nowhere is our interest in celebrities as heightened or as vicious as in this arena. While assigning the delight we find in the personal disaster of another human being to jealousy might be overly simplistic, there is doubtlessly a sense here of revelling in the fall of someone we thought - or felt they thought themselves - to be untouchable.

It seems that regardless of the expensive doctors they might have access to, the rich and famous are as susceptible to the vagaries of happenstance as the rest of us - sometimes, things simply just go wrong. Plastic surgery has literally been the death of some, and side effects can be life threatening. Even relatively minor mishaps can be unsightly and embarrassing, and plastic surgery gone wrong includes an enormous range of problems, from capsular contraction in breast implants (where the implants harden painfully) to problems with the wound and the slippage of implants inserted in a range of locations, including cheeks, chin, and butt. Surely we wouldn't wish these accidents on our worst enemies - unless they were in the public eye.

So celebrities might have thousands of things we think we want, but they are as subject to the whims of higher powers just as the rest of us are. Above all, we are all human, and plastic surgery gone wrong, regardless of the paycheck of the life it affects, is a painful and upsetting time. Let's just hope they get well soon.

Jeff Lakie is the founder of http://www.botox-treatment-information.com a website providing information on cosmetic surgery

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Friday, January 18, 2008

Types of Cosmetic Surgery The Facelift

Cosmetic surgery is an amazing way of improving one?s appearance with methods of modern medicine. It functions as an art as well as a science, since the aim is not only to help someone be healthy, but also look better. Cosmetic surgery includes face lifts and other improvements in facial appearance, and corrections of the contours of the breast and stomach for men as well as women.

Probably the most popular cosmetic surgery operation is the Facelift. The purpose of a facelift is to tighten the skin and remove excess fight, reforming the skin normally on older people, at least over 40 years old. It can be an in hospital procedure with general anesthesia, even though some surgeon due it as an outpatient procedure with local anesthesia. The results usually last for 5 to 10 years.

Facelifts can be over the entire face, or only over the neck, the brow, or the lower face. Other alternative procedures to improve facial appearance include a chemical peel, and facial resurfacing techniques, also laser facial resurfacing. In a chemical peel, a chemical agent is used to remove the upper layer of skin. A better, new layer of skin grows back over the next 2 or 3 weeks.

If your facelift surgery involves using a general anesthetic, you will have to fast and not drink from the night before. The surgeon makes a cut around the hairline on the forehead and carefully separates the skin from underlying fat and muscle. He removes excess fat, tightens loose muscles and then pulls up the skin to a tighter tension. This usually takes three to four hours.

In a new variant of the procedure, called endoscopic surgery, the surgeon makes a few tiny holes to pull the skin up and insert tiny surgical tools. Through a camera and controls, the surgeon is able to see inside the operating area on a TV monitor, and use the surgical tools to do the work. After the operation, the face is wrapped for one or two days, and stitches are removed after one week to ten days. In another procedure, called MACS- Minimal Access Cranial Suspension, also shorter cuts are made, and an effort is made to due the facelift with a minimal amount of scarring.

After the surgery there is some pain, and you usually have to stay in the hospital for a day or two. There is some pain after a facelift, but this can be controlled by normal over the counter pain relievers.

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