All About Plastic Surgery

Most people know someone who has had plastic surgery. Chances are that you have seen people walking down the street that have had a nose job or some other form of cosmetic augmentation. Rhinoplasty, liposuction, and blepharoplasty are all forms of cosmetic surgery that this overview will cover.

What is plastic surgery? Cosmetic and plastic surgery is a medical art that helps people change the way they look. Plastic surgery is a specialty area of medicine that concentrates on altering your appearance. From nose jobs to tummy tucks, there are procedures that can reshape, tighten, shorten, lengthen, enlarge or shrink nearly every part of your body. Plastic surgery is also used to repair your physical appearance in case of an accident or some other form of trauma. If you're not sure about some of the terms associated with cosmetic surgery, take a look at the glossary below to help you understand a few of the more common procedures, and how they're performed.

Abdominoplasty:

This procedure is also known as a tummy tuck. When you undergo this procedure, you can have your abdominal muscles tightened and excess fat removed. This form of plastic surgery takes up to five hours and is considered major surgery.

Breast Surgery:

You've probably heard of it referred to as a boob job. This type of plastic surgery is done for cosmetic reasons, although sometimes it is performed not to enlarge the breast, but rather to reduce the breast size.

Liposuction:

Strictly speaking, liposuction is not just a form of plastic surgery, since it can be used pretty much everywhere on the body. The process involves a tube being inserted under the skin to suction out the fat cells and reshape the body. This procedure is normally done on an outpatient basis.

Laser Facial Resurfacing:

Often, the most popular procedures in facial plastic surgery improve the appearance and texture of your skin by removing the upper cell layers. Dermabrasion scrapes the skin with a high speed rotary wheel, and can even be used on patients with acne scars. A chemical peel does the same thing using a mild chemical to burn away cell layers, and laser resurfacing uses a special kind of laser to remove small wrinkles and imperfections. Each takes from a few minutes to an hour, and you can go home that day.

Blepharoplasty:

This type of surgery can make your eyelids look young again. As you get older, your eyelids, like everything else, begin to sag. Blepharoplasty is a type of plastic surgery that can give them a young, invigorating look. The facelift is similar, but instead of working on your eyelids, it 'lifts? the face to eliminate folds of sagging skin.

There you have it! It is just a short, sweet, brief overview of some of the procedures involved in plastic surgery available for you to redo your look. Thanks to those procedures and others like them, you don't have to be born beautiful anymore. Doctors can help you look great!

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