Archive for the ‘surgery’ Category

Eliminating Wrinkles With Plastic Surgery

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

I can’t honestly say that I’ve never been against plastic surgery. I am against plastic surgery. I just don’t think that the benefits of plastic surgery weigh up against the virtual risks. But with this in mind, I am willing to give you a fair assessment and give surgery a fair chance.

There are a number of different types of surgeries to choose from. Some are more proven, more FDA approved than others. They can range from a tummy tuck, which is really the only way to get rid of excess levels of loose skin, to a facelift or botox for that matter. Now there are obvious problems with botox ranging from freezing facial expressions in a bad way to even death. But you basically take your life in your hands no matter what kind of surgery you have.

This being said, while botox doesn’t really give you a lot of the results you want, other surgeries can be botched. But if you go to a qualified physician, with a facelift for example, they should be equally pulling back all parts, not pulling things back too tight, etc. In fact, actually, when looking at plastic surgery patients, I will admit I have seen a number of different successful cases of facelifts. They got the right doctor who really did the job right, and they used preventative measures before as well.

However, there are two that I would recommend against every time. I would first of all recommend against botox. Botox is a serious problem and deaths are not just because of risk on the table, it’s because they use toxins. But I also would never recommend chemical peels to anyone. It’s too easy to get it wrong, and frankly you are basically peeling off layers of skin, killing off layers, and making the skin especially prone to further damage.

Plastic Surgery For Aging

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

I don’t personally see plastic surgery as a really helpful or for that matter helpful procedure.  I see maintenance as a good thing, rebuilding collagen and elastin as a good thing, etc.  I mean there are good and bad candidates for a surgical facelift.  But quite frankly, it can easily be botched or messed up by an inexperienced surgeon, and frankly it can produce complications even with the best medical professional.  It’s one of those things that if you are really uncomfortable with it, then there are so many different options outside of this.  On the other hand, I do not disagree with reconstructive surgery.

There are so many disfiguring accidents, chemicals, etc that can happen to you no matter who you are or what your circumstances.  There are diseases and otherwise like buruli ulcers that truly are tragic.  No matter how accepting we think we are as a society, frankly we look at people differently when they suffer a disfiguring accident, even though it is not their fault, it is completely unnatural, and the circumstances are quite frankly tragic to say the least.  So that I do agree with. 

But frankly, there are a lot of people who get excessive surgeries because they have a disfigured picture of themselves.  That requires therapy, surgery will not fix that.  All in all, things have to be realistic, and there are so many alternatives in general.