PLASTIC SURGERY VANITY FACTOR AND MICROSURGERY

The Vanity Factor
The quest for beauty through cosmetic surgery is fraught with psychological danger. Some plastic surgeons, therefore, send patients for a psychiatric evaluation to weed out those who seek a new life through cosmetic changes. “We may improve patients’ lives,” says Dr. Linton A. Whitaker, a professor of plastic surgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. “But we usually cannot make their lives entirely different.”
All plastic surgeons agree: If you decide to change a nose, your eyelids, breasts, or hairline, you must be realistic about what plastic surgery can and cannot do for you. If you tend to be sullen and mean, having your flapping ears pinned back by a plastic surgeon will not transform you into a happy person.
Microsurgery
By far, microsurgery is the most exciting new technique in plastic surgery. Working through a microscope, the surgeon operates with tiny instruments and sutures (threads). Thus, the surgeon can sew together tiny blood vessels, nerves, tendons, and ligaments.
In less than a decade, microsurgery has profoundly altered both reconstructive and cosmetic surgery. Before, surgeons often could not restore circulation or nerve connections in injured or detached body parts. Today, they successfully reattach hands, legs, and other parts severed by accident.
Microsurgery also enables the surgeon to transplant large blocks of skin, muscle, or bone from one area to another. By reconnecting the nerve and blood supply in the new location, the surgeon ensures that the transplanted tissue will survive.
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