When Kids Need Plastic Surgery

I am sure a lot of people reading the title of this blog post would end up asking – What??? Why would kids need any kind of cosmetic surgery? Are they old enough to make such an important decision? Well if you are asking yourself similar kind of questions, you are obviously one of those who associate cosmetic plastic surgery with aesthetic reasons only. Of course you are not alone, most people from the United States, Canada or even around the world think of celebrities, breast augmentation, reversing the signs of ageing and weight loss amongst others when they come across the words plastic surgery.

However, cosmetic plastic surgery in its inception stage was never meant for purely aesthetic reasons. It was meant as a reconstructive tool for people who had deformities due to birth defects, accidents or diseases. Unfortunately over the past few decades, the original purpose of cosmetic surgery was less in the news. All we heard about is which celebrity had undergone what kind of cosmetic surgery procedure. There is speculation all the time regarding cosmetic surgery and most people view it purely as an aesthetic tool to enhance your appearance or a tool to get what you want in life.

Cosmetic surgery for reconstructive purposes however, remains one of the best ways to deal with any kind of deformity and has helped literally millions of kids worldwide for many decades now to lead a normal life. The sad part is that many kids cannot enjoy their childhood as other ‘normal’ kids because they were born with some kind of body defect. The most common birth defect is a cleft lip which ends up causing several other health problems in children having such conditions. Cosmetic surgery is even now the only real solution to the problems of birth defects such as cleft lips.

Of course there are many children who are born with everything as it should be but due to an unfortunate event, they have ended up with a body defect or deformity. This includes meeting with an accident, getting burned at certain places on your body or because they ended up with a disease which causes body deformities. It is very tough for children to go through their normal lives when they have to face such kind of conditions and again, cosmetic plastic surgery remains their only hope. The sad truth is kids requiring cosmetic surgery for reconstructive purposes are more common than we think and many of them would need to go through multiple surgeries over their lifetime to finally correct any body deformity.

Making the Positive Effects of Cosmetic Surgery Last Longer

Cosmetic plastic surgery is obviously one of the best ways to reverse the signs of ageing. It is the fastest way to appear more youthful and add a zing to your appearance. However, effects of any cosmetic plastic surgery do not last forever. Any positive effect of a surgical as well as non surgical cosmetic procedure will fade away over time. This is because while you have reversed the signs of ageing from outside, as far as your body is concerned, it will continue to age and there is nothing you can do to stop an ageing body. Hence to continue appearing youthful you will probably have to go through cosmetic surgery multiple times within regular intervals.

Of course instead of frequently going through similar cosmetic procedures, it is possible for you to make the effects of cosmetic plastic surgery last much longer. As a matter of fact, most plastic surgeons would tell you that the care you take after going through a cosmetic procedure is probably as important as the main procedure itself. To ensure your cosmetic surgeries give you the best results for the longest possible period of time, you have to take care of certain things immediately after going through a surgery and also regular care needs to be taken thereafter.

For immediate post surgery care, the first thing you must ensure is that you give your body the appropriate amount of healing time required. Ask your plastic surgeon the average time it takes for the body to heal completely after the specific surgery you are planning to undergo. Apart from giving proper healing time, you need to react quickly if there are any side-effects to the surgery. This includes sudden bleeding, inflammation of the skin, lot of pain, discomfort etc. While all these side-effects are usually nothing to worry about and quite common, you still need to get an expert opinion from your plastic surgeon so that you can rule out anything serious. Also post surgery care would include not putting undue pressure on your body or the specific body part where the cosmetic surgery was administered.

Unfortunately many people who go through cosmetic surgery do take care of the immediate post surgery requirements but after that they let go of themselves. Remember the need for cosmetic surgery comes mainly from signs of ageing or weight related issues. If you end up indulging in activities which speed up the ageing process, you will most certainly require further cosmetic surgery that too frequently. Activities that accelerate the signs of ageing include things like smoking, eating a lot of junk food, not taking medications on time, pushing your body to its physical limit etc. Also you need to keep in mind that any health condition that affects your immune system is the worst thing that can happen if you go through cosmetic surgeries. Hence you must ensure your daily activities or food consumption patterns do not end up creating medical conditions that directly affect the immune system. Take care of these and you can be assured that any positive effect of cosmetic surgery will last for a really long time.

Dealing With Post Surgery Bleeding

After any kind of cosmetic plastic surgery procedure, you will experience discomfort which could be minor or could even be quite severe. From irritation on the skin to experiencing a lot of pain, it is all common post cosmetic surgery and depending upon the procedure you just went through, everything goes back to normal in a few days to a few weeks time. For any cosmetic surgery where incisions are involved, post surgery bleeding is also quite common amongst many patients. However, even though in most cases bleeding is completely normal and nothing to worry about, the very sight of blood can make many individuals think of the worst case scenario.

Just in case you experience bleeding after going through any kind of cosmetic plastic surgery, first thing you need to do is remain calm. Hopefully you would have gone through pre-surgery consultation sessions with your plastic surgeons where post surgery bleeding would be discussed. Most surgeons would make you aware of the risks or other discomfort you may experience after the surgical procedure is completed. They would also give you a number of steps to take just in case you experience things like bleeding or skin inflammation etc. Moment you see that you are bleeding any time after the surgery has taken place, simply remember your surgeon’s advice and take steps accordingly.

Of course if you either do not remember what your plastic surgeon has told you or haven’t had the pre-surgery conversation at all regarding bleeding, even then it is nothing to worry about. Obviously the first thing you need to do is call your plastic surgeon and give him or her exact details of what is happening. It is better to take an appointment as soon as possible to understand if the bleeding is normal or you are experiencing excessive bleeding. Usually a plastic surgeon would change your dressing or if the dressing had been removed earlier, they would apply a new one once again. Also some surgeons would also prescribe medication to ease the pain as well as the bleeding.

While you should remember that post surgery bleeding are quite common and nothing to worry about, it is still better to consult with your surgeon to ensure that the bleeding you are experiencing is standard and nothing worse. On very few occasions, individuals do start experiencing excessive bleeding and it could lead to various other complications like infections or deteriorating health condition due to loss of blood.

Possible Complications Post Plastic Surgery

A lot of our regular readers have been asking us to talk more about the risks or possible complications that can arise after someone has gone through a cosmetic plastic surgery. Well while risks usually are dependant on the type of procedure you have gone through and its complexity, we have given below some of the more common complications or unforeseen conditions you may face once your cosmetic surgery is completed:

1) Excessive bleeding – Little bit of bleeding is quite common after plastic surgery. After all, there were incisions made by knives on your body and it takes time for these incisions to heal completely. However, at certain times patients may experience excessive bleeding, much more than what is usually considered as normal. In such cases you should immediately contact your plastic surgeon and ask them to provide medication to stop the bleeding. Your plastic surgeon also needs to have a relook at the places the incisions were made to check if everything is fine or there may be a more serious issue.

2) Development of Long term or permanent scars – Permanent scars is one of the factors that several potential cosmetic surgery candidates are afraid of. While initially it is perfectly fine if there are scars after the cosmetic surgery, depending upon the type of surgery you have been through, these scars should start fading over time. However in certain cases, these scars remain for a much longer time than normal and in a worst case scenario, permanent scars are formed on the body. Those going through any kind of cosmetic surgery should first ask their surgeons how long they should expect the scars to remain for their specific situation. If the scars do not show signs of fading even after the average amount of time specified by the surgeon, then you need to consult with them on ways to make the scars disappear completely.

3) Body Rejecting Implants – For any kind of cosmetic surgery that involves implants such as breast implants or calf implants, as far as the body is concerned a foreign object has been inserted and it takes some time for it to get used to this foreign object. However, in some rare cases your body could end up rejecting the new implants and would not adjust to it at all. In such cases, you could go through mild to severe health conditions and your surgeon needs to remove the implants as soon as possible.

Three Important Ways to Recover Quickly After Plastic Surgery

Any kind of cosmetic plastic surgery can be quite taxing on the body. At the end of the day, a plastic surgery is almost the same as a standard surgery involving incisions on the body, blood loss, anesthesia, knives and needles etc. It is important that you do all it takes to ensure that your body recovers completely and as soon as possible to negate any risks post surgery. While there are many ways to ensure complete and quick recovery, the following ways are absolutely essential and must be followed without exception:

1) Taking Proper Rest – Every cosmetic plastic surgery procedure requires you to take rest after the surgery. Depending upon the surgery or number of surgeries you have gone through, the recovery times would vary. Certain procedures may require only about a week’s rest while some others could require few months of rest. Consult with your plastic surgeon about the optimum amount of time you need full rest before getting back to your usual routine. Remember, not taking proper rest could put a lot of pressure on your body which is working round the clock to accept the new cosmetic changes and recover as fast as possible. Any undue pressure could lead to numerous health issues which may occur months after the surgery. Hence it is always advisable to go through the recommended amount of rest after surgery to ensure the body recovers as fast as possible.

2) Eating Healthy – We cannot stress this point enough. I personally have spoken about the importance of eating healthy several times before and will continue to repeat it. If you want the best results from your plastic surgery procedures, then you must eat healthy. As a matter of fact, the healthier you are, the better the results post surgery. Once your cosmetic surgery is completed, eating the right kind of food will give the required boost to your immune system to fight out any chances of infections and other negative health effects. It will also give enough vigor and strength to your body to completely recover from the surgery quite fast.

3) Follow a plan – This is another aspect which we have repeated many times before. Prior to your cosmetic surgery, you need to plan out with your plastic surgeon regarding post surgery precautions. Your plastic surgeon will be in the best position to tell you what you need to do after surgery, if you need any kind of special medication, exercise or diet. Make a plan along with your plastic surgeon, create the checklist and ensure you are following every aspect of that list. Do not take shortcuts. By ensuring everything has been followed properly will you ensure fast recovery times and more importantly complete recovery. Without a complete recovery, you will always run the risk of health problems at a later date.

Top 3 Reasons Smoking and Plastic Surgery Do Not Go Hand in Hand

Try visiting any website or blog which gives information on various cosmetic plastic surgery procedures and you will find one sentence in common in each and every of those web pages – “People who smoke or are chain smokers are not good candidates for plastic surgery” or “People who smoke have much greater risks of something going wrong post surgery”. There are several reasons why pretty much all cosmetic surgery procedures are off limits to heavy smokers. However, the top 3 reasons why you need to quit smoking if you want any kind of plastic surgery are as follows:

1) Smoking ruins your immunity. With every puff of a cigarette, your immune system loses a bit of its power. With a full cigarette or a pack of cigarettes, your immune system loses a lot of its power. Now imagine smoking almost every day and what it is doing to your immunity. Almost all plastic surgery procedures require the patient to be in excellent health condition for faster recovery. If your immune system is already damaged due to smoking, there are chances your body will reject the cosmetic enhancements after surgery. Almost certainly your body will have a tough time trying to recover from the surgery and end up causing several other health conditions. Hence due to the negative impact on the immune system by cigarettes, smoking and plastic surgery do not go hand in hand.

2) Smoking also leads to loss of tissue or tissue death. This in itself is bad for your body but add to that a plastic surgery procedure and you are looking at severe health problems which in extreme cases could be fatal as well. Also almost certainly heavy smokers will end up with infections or other health issues post surgery which would considerably slow down the healing process.

3) The biggest damage by smoking is caused in the lungs. Your lungs bear the brunt of the smoke and get clogged. Needless to explain what kind of adverse health conditions that can lead to. In fact there are just too many issues to mention over here. All you need to know is that with poor health conditions, you become the worst possible candidate for any plastic surgery procedure. Preliminary tests by your plastic surgeon will clearly make them hesitant if they see damage caused due to smoking. No responsible plastic surgeon would touch you as they would know what severe risks you run by undergoing any kind of surgery.

Plastic Surgery May Also Ease Migraines

MANY of the nearly 30 million Americans who suffer from migraines end up feeling like guinea pigs. Chronic patients — those who are laid low 15 or more days a month — often cycle through drug after drug in search of relief. They also contend with side effects like mental sluggishness and stomach upset. Treatment involves guesswork because doctors have not pinpointed what causes migraines, nor do they know which drugs will best help which patients.

“It can be a merry-go-round going from medication to medication in pursuit of control,” said Dr. Roger K. Cady, the vice president of the board for the National Headache Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to patient education.

No wonder that last month, news of a surgical “cure” that touts a high success rate ricocheted worldwide. The double-blind study, published in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, found that more than 80 percent of patients who underwent surgery in one of three “trigger sites” significantly reduced their number of headaches compared with more than 55 percent of the group who had sham surgery. More than half of the patients with the real surgery reported a “complete elimination” of headaches compared with about 4 percent of the placebo group.

Forehead lifts are cosmetic procedures that plastic surgeons typically perform to smooth furrowed brows. But a decade ago, after some of his patients reported that their migraines improved post-operation, Dr. Bahman Guyuron, a plastic surgeon and the lead author of the study, began to search for a surgical solution that could address migraine trigger points — which he defines as where the headache begins and settles — in the forehead, temples and the back of the head.

Headache specialists tend to be neurologists or internists, so Dr. Guyuron’s work has not always been taken seriously. “If I had a neurologist tell me there’s a new way of doing a facelift, I would have been very skeptical about it also,” said Dr. Guyuron, the chairman of the plastic surgery department at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland. “But honestly I would have had an open mind.”

In the last month, the press has made much of the fact that a single operation could relieve migraines and turn back the clock in one fell swoop. But it is the potential that surgery for migraines may offer a viable alternative to drugs that has migraine specialists intrigued. “A very large subset became headache-free and remained headache-free for a year — that is a fantastic result,” said Dr. Richard B. Lipton, the director of the Montefiore Headache Center in the Bronx.

Especially considering that in the field of migraines, success is defined “as a reduction of 50 percent of attacks,” Dr. Cady said. Going from 10 episodes monthly to 5 is a welcome change, he added, but “it’s still a lot of migraines.”

The theory behind the surgery is that because some migraines are caused when sensitive nerve branches are squeezed and irritated by muscles, deactivating those muscles could bring prolonged relief. In the off-label use of Botox for migraines, those same muscles — when paralyzed with Botox injections — have eased headaches in some patients for roughly three months. Forehead lifts, Dr. Guyuron reasoned, might result in a longer-lasting, perhaps permanent, alleviation of pain. Only study participants who responded positively to Botox were offered the surgery.

(Dr. Cady cautioned that the research on Botox as a treatment for chronic headaches is not yet ironclad. Allergan, Botox’s maker, is pursuing the approval of Botox as a treatment for chronic migraines by the Food and Drug Administration.)

Many headache specialists, Dr. Lipton and Dr. Cady included, emphasize that this migraine surgery isn’t applicable to most sufferers. “Folks who are appropriate for this procedure — they are the tip of the iceberg, not the vast majority,” said Dr. Jennifer S. Kriegler, a neurologist who is one of the study’s authors and who works at the Cleveland Clinic’s headache center.

At this stage, suitable candidates are those who endure frequent migraines and have failed more tried-and-true methods of controlling their headaches, several doctors said. The bottom line, Dr. Lipton explained, is if you can’t identify a point of irritation and “if you don’t respond to Botox, we don’t know if this treatment works for you.”

Some doctors fear that the surgery may be offered to inappropriate patients before further research confirms its efficacy for a broader group of patients. “I don’t want us to overshoot and start doing widespread surgeries in not very well selected patients until we are convinced this is broadly effective,” said Dr. F. Michael Cutrer, the chief of the headache division in the neurology department at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. “You can always stop a medication but you can’t reverse a surgery.”

As word of the surgery spreads, Dr. Cutrer said that he anticipated pleas for referrals to the few plastic surgeons nationwide who offer the operations, but that “until we maybe have studies that are a bit larger, and some longer follow-up I’m going to be very cautious.”

So far, Dr. Guyuron has trained roughly 150 doctors, and other plastic surgeons are refining their own migraine operations, even though they barely advertise.

Two years ago, an aunt told Shannon Byrne, from Mayfield Heights, Ohio, about Dr. Guyuron’s migraine surgery. Ms. Byrne said that she had already spent a decade on “every single medication you can think of.” Still, pain hammered her head more days than not. “You’re willing to try anything,” she said. Dr. Guyuron’s surgery, which she had 18 months ago, was a godsend. The migraines that led to her dropping out of college and to a stroke at 20 are gone. “My dad told me not to worry about the money,” Ms. Byrne, now 22, said of the thousands paid out of pocket.

A classic forehead lift for cosmetic effect differs significantly from surgery for migraine sufferers. The latter removes frown muscles more thoroughly and entails padding nerves with fatty tissue, said Dr. David A. Branch, a plastic surgeon in Bangor, Me., who performs migraine operations.

Sometimes, migraine surgery doesn’t involve the forehead at all. It varies according to where the patient’s trigger sites are: forehead, temples or back of the head. If Dr. Guyuron operates on the temples, the eyebrows are rejuvenated, he said. It is only the surgery at the back of the head that has no added perk, he said.

It’s unclear whether or not the migraine sufferers whose pain had disappeared a year post-operation will remain headache-free for life.

“My goal is zero headaches,” said Dr. Jeffrey E. Janis, a plastic surgeon in Dallas, who has performed roughly 100 operations in the last five years after training with Dr. Guyuron. “I might be able to achieve that in some, not in all.”

Complete elimination is “a pretty strong claim after one year of follow-up,” Dr. Cutrer said.

As a way of dampening expectations, Dr. Kriegler, who has referred patients to Dr. Guyuron, frequently tells them: “Once a migraineur, always a migraineur.”

Disclaimer: This blog or article is for information purpose only, and should not be treated a professional advice or price protection guarantee.

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Study: Untrained “cosmetic surgeons” pose health hazards

Cosmetic procedures like Botox, facial fillers and liposuction are big money-makers for physicians. Not surprisingly, doctors  other than plastic surgeons and dermatologists also offer cosmetic treatments. According to a new study, nearly 40% of doctors offering liposuction in Southern California had no specific surgical training.

The study, published in the April issue of the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, examined 1,876 cosmetic practitioners from San Diego to Los Angeles. Only 495 of them were trained in plastic surgery. Primary care physicians made up the fourth-largest group of liposuction providers following plastic surgeons, dermatologists and otolaryngologists.

There is no law to prevent doctors from offering these services, especially in a doctor’s office (doctors need to apply for privileges to perform services in hospitals). Many non-surgeons take a course or participate in some form of limited training to perform liposuction or inject fillers. But such training is not required and is often inadequate, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

Though providing Botox or facial fillers is unlikely to be dangerous, liposuction can result in serious complications, the authors state. “We feel that the provision of such a potentially hazardous treatment by physicians with no training in surgery poses a genuine threat to the safety of patients.”

Further, the authors state, aesthetic franchises have sprung up that have no association with one particular provider, making it more difficult for patients to know just who is responsible for their care.

“The practices are often named after a geographic location with a cachet of affluence, such as Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills or La Jolla. In these practices, the practitioners are employees of the owner of the clinical facility, and are pushed to produce revenue. The divorce of the practice from the name of the responsible physician has the potential to have a profound impact on the doctor-patient relationship and how patients select a provider,” the authors state.

Still, the authors say more legislation is not what’s needed, calling government meddling ”a guest who may never leave.” They suggest more effort to educate the public on who is or isn’t qualified to perform various cosmetic procedures.

I vote for whichever method — education, legislation or perhaps both — will protect consumer health and safety regardless of professional turf wars.

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