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Cosmetic Surgery
22.01.2009
English Course Level 2 - Personal Skills
What happened to them?
Cosmetic Surgery
What’s Cosmetic Surgery?
Plastic Surgery
Cosmetic SurgeryUniquely restricts itself to the enhancement of appearance through surgical and medical techniques. It is specifically concerned with maintaining normal appearance, restoring it, or enhancing it beyond the average level toward some aesthetic ideal.
Plastic Surgery is a recognized surgical specialty and is defined as the subspecialty dedicated to the surgical repair of defects of form or function.
Reconstructive Surgery
Statistic Figure
Europe, with nearly 10% increase since the turn of the new century. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the global market now exceeds $30 billion, with a sustainable compound annual growth rate in the range of 25%.
In Europe it is found that the market for cosmetic surgery alone is about $2.2 billion
Why more and more people take cosmetic surgery ?
“I WANT TO BE MORE BEAUTIFUL !”
Should be supported ?YES !
Why should be supported?
Good looks is important
– “ I Know what wages beauty gives”
--Irish poet William Butler Yeats
What is beautiful?
Research proves:certain homogenous beauty standards do exist within cultures.
Who decide what is beautiful?
To be beautiful is a matter of taste?NO
research by anthropologists sociologists and social psychologists conclude:
people have no trouble recognizing or agreeing on who is beautiful and who is not.
Appearance is our first name card
Should not perceive another person depend on their
looks...
RIGHT !
How about when it comes to people you have never met before and know nothing about but their looks to base your first impression on?
Our appearance is the one thing that is obvious on all social occasions
Stereotyping on the basis of a persons physical attributes occurs quickly and easily
How many people you will deal with
In your life?
N years x 365days x 3?
The speed of our life become quicker and quicker.
We get contact with more and more people but get know less and less about the people
Whom You prefer to serve you in the airplane?
You prefer whom to be your
neighbour?
With good looking people get more chances
Appearance
Intelligence
Disposition
Character
…
Looks not only impact on our first impression!
Good looks are often associated with higher intellect eventhough there is no general obvious link betweenattractiveness and competence.
Parents and teachers treat pretty
children more encouragingly and
give more attention
teachers give attractive students better grades
Self-confidence
More chances
Better treatments
Nothing is wrong with wanting to look better!
Why not?
Risks You Need To Know
1. Hematomais a small, internalcollection of clotted
blood.
This occurs after about 1% to 2% of face-lift procedures.
2. Seroma: Seroma is an
internal collection of watery body fluids.
3. Necrosis Necrosis, or tissue
death from surgical manipulation.
4. Nerve Injury Any time the skin
is cut, small nerves are severed.
Real risk rate 1 in 1,000
5. Infection
Make sure you hire a board-certified surgeon, and the facility is clean and sterile.
6. Numbness Temporary
numbness or loss of feeling at the site of an operation is fairly common with face lifts and tummy tucks.
7. Bleeding: The risk of
dangerous levels of bleeding after surgery is about 1%
8. Ptosis: or sagging and drooping, is not an uncommon side effect.
9. Death In cardiac surgery,
a 2% death rate is normal. Plastic surgeries deal with much smaller vessels, so the death rate is rare, substantially less than 1%
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Stimulate Technique Innovation
Equipment
Material
Polypropylene breast implants
Silicone gel implants
Endoscope
Benefits
Non surgical
Painless
No side effects
No complication
Conclusion
supportive
expectation
Psychological distress
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