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Cosmetic surgery has become a popular avenue for personal enhancement for people who desire to improve their particular features or overall appearance. Once considered the exclusive preserve of the rich and famous, cosmetic surgery procedures have become increasingly affordable. Getting the perfectly sculpted body of your dreams and looking younger and better than ever before has never been easier with the cosmetic surgery procedures that are widely available today. Cosmetic surgery procedures can now be performed on almost every part of the human body to aesthetically enhance one's physical appearance. Unlike plastic surgery which is necessary and reconstructive in nature, Cosmetic Surgery is elective and serves to enhance one's personal appearance, and Cosmetic surgery procedures are confined to the enhancement of personal appearance through surgical and medical techniques. Common Cosmetic Surgery procedures include nose surgeries, face and brow lifts, liposuction, and breast augmentation. Perhaps the most popular cosmetic surgery procedure performed by cosmetic surgeons today is liposuction followed by breast augmentation. Other popular cosmetic surgery procedures include Blepharoplasty or eyelid surgery, Mastopexy or the raising of sagging breasts, Rhinoplasty or reshaping of the nose, Otoplasty or ear surgery, Rhytidectomy or face lift, Chin augmentation, and Cheek augmentation. Society tends to determine our standards of desirability not only in behaviour but also in physical appearance. While some physical standards such as hair length seem to vary from generation to generation or even every few months according to fashion, other physical factors seems relatively constant. Social pressure encourages people to improve their appearance as long as the methods used are within reasonable bounds. Cosmetic Surgery, a sub speciality of Plastic surgery is firmly established and now accepted by both the public and the medical profession. Those who still look upon Cosmetic Surgery with suspicion or disfavour are old fashioned or uninformed. |
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