But what about bad plastic surgery? As with every coin, the plastic surgery coin has a flip side-a price to be paid for benefits received. The cost of plastic surgery can put a huge strain on the family budget, particularly when the cost exceeds the estimate. Estimates for plastic surgery are usually just for the procedure itself. If anesthesia is used, the anesthesiologist must be paid. If there are complications the hospital stay may be extended. In addition, there is a cost to post operative care including post-op medications. Sometimes the time off work must be extended to further address the healing process. All of these strain the family’s financial resources. With the exception of reconstructive surgery, elective plastic surgery is not covered by insurance.

Psychologists are finding that often there is a heavy emotional and psychological price to pay for plastic surgery. Two thirds of patients who seek plastic surgery will return for another surgery. Some of them will sink into the psychological abyss of body dysmorphic disorder – a condition where the patient’s body image is so distorted that no amount of surgery can correct it. Yet, they are so obsessed that they seek one surgery after another often jumping from surgeon to surgeon. This is not a condition that can be fixed by surgery – it is condition that requires professionals to help change the patient’s view of their body.

Plastic surgery has the same risks as any surgery: The risk of infection, the risk of organ failure during surgery, and the risk of an allergic reaction to medications. The American Medical Associations urges patients to use due diligence before having plastic surgery-interview the surgeon, get references, be fully aware of physical, psychological, and financial complications. Armed with thorough information, the patient can make a good decision and be prepared for the contingencies.

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British women magazine “New Women” have conducted a number of polls found that 90% of women believe that their body shape or appearance “is very disappointing.” To plastic surgery, they showed a very positive attitude. Nearly 70% of the people are willing to consider doing some kind of plastic surgery, of which 26% think they must do plastic surgery. For breast augmentation, mostly women think it is acceptable, 1/3 of the female think breast augmentation do good for career, 78% of women think that men prefer women to do breast augmentation surgery. In UK, the popularity degree of plastic surgery is: liposuction, wrinkle reduction, breast augmentation, nose repair, chest and skin reduction and recycling. Among the women who had cosmetic surgery, 3/4 of them expressed that their quality of life has improved, 71%of them want to do surgery again.

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