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IAMA cosmetic surgeon working in Los Angeles, CA.
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I can't talk about specific clients, but other than that: ask away.
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Have you ever said "So, you're here to fix that nose?" and totally offended the patient?
99% of plastic surgery looks terrible.
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Lip injections look gross, body alterations to make yourself look more attractive take away from natural beauty; people should not be investing money in trying to change their prominent features, especially on the face. When people try to look more young, its embarrassing, and they end up looking more like aliens or dead people or so artificial it’s uncomfortable to look at. There are exceptions I’m sure, like surgeries that go unnoticed that just change something small. I feel like the best plastic surgeries are the ones that are hard to notice, but then, whats the point? Shouldn’t we be embracing our perceived “imperfections” and emphasizing natural beauty? Its such a silly thing to spend money on, I don’t get it at all. I think there is more benefit in learning to accept and love yourself WITH all of your qualities that you don’t find perfect, thank just changing your body permanently and potentially mutilating yourself.
Top Comment: You don’t recognize good plastic surgery , that’s why they are good
CMV: plastic surgery is largely unnecessary and people need therapy more than plastic surgery
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Excluding outlier cases such as deformities or deformities caused by accidents, or anything pertaining to health. I think plastic surgery has a place of usefulness.
I am talking about the casual pursuit of more and more plastic surgery + fillers + Botox - particularly in young people who spend a lot of time on social media.
Social media has caused an unhealthy obsession with appearance. There are communities on Reddit where people exclusively pick each other apart, tell them what kind of plastic surgery they need, then encourage posters to come back and update with their new look.
This is kind of nuts. Changing your face to look more like everyone else in pursuit of a beauty ideal (and those ideals change) makes me think people need therapy to help them feel comfortable in their skin more than they need to change themselves to fit the ideal.
I don’t think it’s “acceptance” to accept that people get plastic surgery to fit some societal ideal. Acceptance would be just accepting people as they are and not placing such an insane value on being “attractive” (a shifting goalpost tbh).
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I think I need to clarify - I am not saying it should be illegal, that people who get cosmetic surgery should be judged, or that they shouldn’t be allowed to get surgery.
I’m saying my view is that a lot of the demand for cosmetic procedures is inherently unhealthy and driven by social media and looking at images of ourselves more than we were ever meant to.
I am not referring to necessary plastic surgery to correct issues, fix real deformities or problems that would affect how someone is treated (that includes cosmetic surgeries!!)
I am talking about young people on the internet trying to get buccal fat removal or double jaw surgery to meet an ideal they see on the internet. And then doing it again, and again, and again and still hating how they look.
Top Comment: Counter argument: The most important characteristic that you get judged by in life is how physically attractive you are. You may argue this is not true or that something has higher priority but this is largely true. To become substantially more attractive than you used to be substantially benefits your own life in very tangible ways. Therapy helps you cope, or detach, or review yourself and your view of the world. However, therapy will not make an attractive person want to date you and it won’t make people be less revolted by you if you’re unattractive. Yes therapy can attempt to solve your inner monologue issue but sometimes the best solution is to solve the exterior circumstances that are causing the problem People are not enlightened buddhists who have 0 desires and can detach from their biological and social desires so easily. Plastic surgery is a tangible and effective way to increase your power, access, resources, as well as general respect from other people.
Why do some against the idea of people getting surgery for cosmetic reasons when it can improve people’s self esteem and mental health?
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The only surgery for cosmetic reason I got was forehead reduction surgery and I don’t plan on getting any other type of cosmetic surgery. I’m not upset with the size of everything else on my face that I was born with.
I chose to get the forehead reduction surgery to try and make myself feel prettier and it definitely worked. Nobody forced me into getting it.
Growing up I was repeatedly called names like long face, fat head and ugly. I do blame these people who called me these names during my school age years for hurting my feelings and making me feel bad about my looks. Was it my choice to have feelings? No, I don’t think so. It’s quite normal for a person to have feelings.
The reason I chose to get the surgery was to try and make myself feel better about the hurt and pain other people caused me and the surgery definitely worked in making me feel better. Thank God. I feel like I haven’t wasted my money. It was worth it for me.
Top Comment: I don’t have an issue with cosmetic surgery and feel people should get whatever they want done. Personally I wouldn’t do it but understand the ways it can help people reach their ideals selves and be happy. My only qualm with how we look at plastic surgery today is that it’s almost offered as a default answer to women when even the slightest thing about them is out of place. Like 17 year olds talking about getting Botox and lip fillers is so crazy to me. You’re not even done growing. It feels so insidious and unhealthy. I think if it was looked at more healthily and not as a requirement to fit in to today’s standard of beauty it would probably be more openly accepted.