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What Plastic Surgery Can & Can't Do

Plastic surgery, otherwise known as cosmetic surgery, is the surgical enhancement or alteration of the body. While plastic surgery used to be only for the very rich and celebrities, it is now extremely mainstream. Plastic surgery can be a positive or negative experience, depending on the person and his circumstances. Plastic surgery can help many people in a variety of ways, but there are many things plastic surgery can't do.

  1. Can Do

    • Plastic surgery can fix physical disfigurement or deformities. It can fix physical flaws for individuals who have specific body complaints. It increases self-confidence by resolving physical self-consciousness. After accidents or trauma, plastic surgery can return a patient's appearance to its previous state. It can fix body flaws and enhance physical appearance.

    Can't Do

    • Plastic surgery cannot fix a person's life. Plastic surgery is just an alteration of a person's body. It can't get someone a job, make friends for them or resolve body issues that go deeper than a complaint about a specific body part.

    Benefits

    • Plastic surgery can be a great thing for someone who is otherwise mentally stable, in good health and has reasonable expectations for the outcome of the surgery. It helps people regain their lives after mastectomy or burns. It fixes body flaws so that people can be more confident.

    Considerations

    • Plastic surgery rarely creates perfect results, and plastic surgeons don't promise them. They do their best to create an aesthetically pleasing result for the patient, and work with what the patient has physically. Any patient who expects absolute perfection is not a good candidate for plastic surgery, as results may differ slightly from what they want and leave her just as unhappy as before. Getting plastic surgery to make someone else happy is never a good choice, as the patient should be the one who wants to change his appearance. Doing it for another person will not help the patient's self-esteem.

    Warning

    • Plastic surgery is major surgery. Since general anesthesia is required for surgical procedures, the risks of general anesthesia apply. These include nausea, allergic reaction and in rare instances, death. Surgical risks include accidental nicking of nearby organs causing internal bleeding, surgical wound infection and scarring. Choosing an experienced and certified plastic surgeon minimizes the risks of plastic surgery, although risk can never be completely eliminated.

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