Ask An Expert: The Most Popular Myths About Plastic Surgery

Plastic surgery is addictive, only people with complexes and other plastic surgery myths in which you need to stop believing resort to it.

Naydenov Nikolay

Plastic surgeon of the clinics S.N. Blokhin Frau Klinik

Myth # 1: plastic is addictive

Surgery is addictive only in people with psychological disorders. In all other cases, patients come only on indications. But here we cannot exclude another important point - the influence of social networks. Each girl in the subconscious has her own standard of ideal appearance. And striving for it can cause you to lose touch with reality. A woman goes to surgery, but the result is still not happy with her - even if it is perfect! The reason for this behavior is simple: her imaginary ideal does not correspond to her real external data. To make a nose like Angelina Jolie does not mean to become her! It may not match the face shape and appearance of a woman. Hence the dissatisfaction and repeated plastics. In our work, psychological risks cannot be ruled out that can actually cause disorders.

Myth # 2: plastic surgery is expensive

It is generally accepted that plastic surgery is available only to wealthy people with a lot of free time. This is not true! First, the technology of the operation has changed a lot! Today they do not imply a long rehabilitation period. For example, Botox injections in the USA are called "lunchtime" injections, and the recovery period after check-lifting, space-lifting, SMAS and MACS braces takes no more than 3-5 days. And these procedures are absolutely accessible to everyone!

Myth number 3: only those who do not love themselves resort to plastic surgery

This is the biggest misconception about plastic surgery! There are many indications for her. Statistics assert (and we have no reason not to believe her) that the main patients of the clinics are middle-aged women mothers. No matter how high-quality the skin care is, the procedures do not cope with time. More radical measures are needed - the help of a surgeon. There is nothing wrong with wanting to look good. But it is quite another matter when a person seeks to change himself because of the children's complex and the rejection of his own body. In this case, you definitely need the advice and help of a psychotherapist. Before going to the surgeon, honestly answer yourself the question "Why?" Your motivation should have serious arguments, not a pursuit of excellence that has no limit.

Myth 4: plastic helps you look 30 at 50

Alas and ah, but this myth is the source of the biggest female disappointments. The point is that the possibilities of plastic surgery must be proportional to the capabilities of our body. No surgeon can turn back the clock by turning an adult woman into a young girl.

Plastic surgery can eliminate wrinkles, tighten the face, improve skin turgor and elasticity, but it does not affect biological processes in any way.

There are some regenerative technologies that can stop the aging process at the cellular level, improve the external characteristics of the skin and rejuvenate the body as a whole, but all these procedures have only a temporary effect. Nobody has managed to stop time yet!

Myth # 5: Plastic surgery can be done once and for all

Another delusion. Plastic surgery gives an effect for about 8-10 years, but that's a lot. Of course, if you do otoplasty (ear surgery), your ears will remain permanently fixed. But any type of age-related face plastic has a temporary effect. Although it is quite long.