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Cosmetic procedures
Published in Melanie Latham, Jean V. McHale, The Regulation of Cosmetic Procedures, 2020
Melanie Latham, Jean V. McHale
We use the more widely utilized term in clinical practice of ‘cosmetic surgery’ rather than ‘aesthetic surgery’ throughout the book.15 Cosmetic surgery is a procedure that is rarely available to National Health Service (NHS) patients in England as it is considered non-therapeutic and is something that has to be paid for privately.16 As with plastic surgery, however, cosmetic surgery also involves invasive treatment, which breaks the skin, requires anaesthesia and possibly blood transfusions. Such procedures include surgery on the: breast (reduction, augmentation, lift, insertion of implants); face (‘lifting’ of the face or brow, nose ‘rhinoplasty’, eyelid blepharoplasty, chin or cheek implants); abdomen (liposuction, ‘tummy tuck’); buttocks and legs (liposuction). In contrast to plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery is typically carried out as a response to a consumer’s request for the aesthetic enhancement of his or her body by a surgeon and is non-therapeutic in that sense.17 However, the idea that cosmetic procedures can also sometimes answer a clinical need, by improving psychological ‘well-being’, has gained ground in recent years.18
Introduction to the Phenomenon of “Medical Tourism”
Published in Frederick J. DeMicco, Shirley Weis, Medical Tourism and Wellness, 2017
However, when the traveler is seeking more serious medical attention, the most common emerging model is that of a hotel as a facility serving the medical tourist briefly before medical treatment, and longer during the convalescence process prior to returning home. In essence, the hotel is an “aftercare” facility, as the guest moves from medical facilities while his or her strength returns, healing occurs, and family members supplement the medical travel experience with tourism and relaxation. This recovery period may range from a few days for minor and cosmetic surgery to a couple of weeks or more in the case of major surgery. Serving such patient/guests is relatively new ground for many properties, and it raises several new considerations.
Cosmetic Plastic Surgery—The Basics
Published in M. Sandra Wood, Internet Guide to Cosmetic Surgery for Women, 2013
Plastic surgery is the medical specialty involved with changing a person’s appearance via surgery. Although people tend to think of plastic surgery in terms of its cosmetic use, in reality, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the majority of surgeries are reconstructive in nature. Cosmetic surgery is generally defined as surgery done for the purpose of improving appearance, i.e., it is plastic surgery for aesthetic purposes, while reconstructive surgery is done to correct or repair a defect, for example to correct a birth defect or repair an injury. The same procedure may be used either cosmetically or for reconstruction, and frequently the purpose of the surgery determines whether it is covered by health insurance. Most cosmetic procedures are not covered by insurance, although it’s always good to check with your health insurance company.
Cosmetic Procedures and Mental Health: A Double-Edged Sword?
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2020
Michelle Cleary, Toby Raeburn, Catherine Hungerford
In the twenty-first century, many of the changes that are made by people to improve their appearance are less temporary than in past times. As already noted, cosmetic procedures can be both invasive and non-invasive, with the former achieving permanent changes to the body. Specifically, invasive cosmetic surgery has been defined as any procedure “where the primary intention is to achieve what the patient perceives to be a more desirable appearance and where the procedure involves changes to bodily features that have a normal appearance on presentation to the doctor” (Dean et al., 2018, p. 95). Importantly, this differs to surgery undertaken with the intent to achieve a normal appearance in cases where there are “congenital defects, developmental abnormalities, trauma, infection, tumours or disease” that does not meet the above cosmetic surgery definition (Dean et al., 2018, p. 95).
Facial Feminization Surgery: The Ethics of Gatekeeping in Transgender Health
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics, 2018
In the policies of the house of delegates of the American Medical Association, the definition of cosmetic surgery is that of “surgery performed to reshape normal structures of the body to improve the patient’s appearance and self-esteem” (American Medical Association Policies of House of Delegates 1989). However, a medically necessary surgery “is performed on an abnormal structure of the body caused by congenital defects, developmental abnormalities, trauma, infection, tumors, or disease and is generally performed to improve the function but may also be done to approximate normal appearance.” We argue that if one considers this treatment logic for gender dysphoria, FFS must be categorized as a medical necessity. While cosmetic surgery is intended to produce beauty, FFS is undertaken to produce femaleness. Like GRS, FFS is intended to transform the patient’s gender from male to female. FFS is not driven by a desire to achieve cosmetic improvement; it is driven by a desire to obtain a body that enables one to engage and function in society.
Autologous fat transfer with SEFFI (superficial enhanced fluid fat injection) technique in periocular reconstruction
Published in Orbit, 2018
Benjamin Riesco, Cristina Abascal, Ana Duarte, Rocio Mariel Flores, Guillermina Rouaux, Raul Sampayo, Francesco Bernardini, Martin Devoto
Restoring a normal and healthy facial appearance after trauma, progressive disfiguring diseases, surgical, and non surgical oncologic treatments and unsuccessful cosmetic surgery present a true challenge for the oculoplastic surgeon. More than 120 years ago, Nueber published the first results with autologous fat transfer for scar improvement.1 Since then, a therapeutic arsenal including autologous fat, hyaluronic acid fillers, flaps, grafts, and more recently mesenchymal stem cells have been developed trying to overcome the arduous purpose of restoring a near-to-normal volume, symmetry, skin quality, and function during periocular reconstruction. Prominent names of plastic surgery such as Coleman 2 and Rohrich 3, among others, have provided a significant amount of literature demonstrating the potential of fat grafting for customized volume increase and facial rejuvenation. In 2015, Bernardini proposed the injection of autologous fat rich in stem cells at a superficial level pointing out its regenerative, anti-inflammatory, and immunomodulating benefits. This technique, SEFFI (superficial enhanced fluid fat injection), uses 0.5 and 0.8 mL micro-cannulas in order to collect fine fat, rich in pluripotent cells.4 We have expanded the use of SEFFI for periocular rehabilitation with good results.