COSMETIC SURGERY OF THE FACE: THE MIRROR WITH TWO FACES

Improve or alter its external appearance has always been a concern of man.Today cosmetic surgery is no longer taboo, even for men, but the avalanche of information available it is difficult to separate the commercial and good practice. The quality and accuracy of information are guarantors of security.For surgery of the face of diversity techniques is proposed due to aesthetic and psychological characteristics of each element of the face. Some techniques are proven, others are newer, but in any case the surgeon must guide a patient with clarity in the choice of technique.

Choosing your surgeon

According to statistics, there are in France five times more doctors practicing cosmetic surgery that doctors really competent or specialists in Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery recognized by the National Council of the College of Physicians. Only those surgeons have received adequate training. It is imperative when considering a gesture of aesthetic surgery to verify the skills of the surgeon with the Bar Council or the French Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons.

The estimate

Since 1996 for any aesthetic benefit whose amount is greater than or equal to 2000 francs, or with general anesthesia the law requires the practitioner to submit a detailed estimate. This estimate includes detailed information on references and skills of the practitioner and the care facility and the operation details of the intervention, its aftermath, the total amount payable, with a reflection period of 15 days. Production of this quotation by the practitioner is a guarantee of reliability and safety.

Choosing your institution.

Like any surgery, plastic surgery has risks associated with interventions themselves but also to anesthesia, either local or general. It can therefore be practiced in facilities equipped with the structures of resuscitation and post-operative monitoring that are recovery rooms. These must be approved. As for overdraft facilities through advertising, they must be evaluated carefully and cautiously. Indeed, besides the fact that advertising is prohibited by the Bar Council, we can consider that institutions need to provide their customers may not have the desired reputation.

Facelifts

The facelift is a procedure that allows to tighten the skin and integument of the face to give the face a firmer and fresher. The scars are made in the hair in front and behind the ears, creases or furrows of the face normal to be less visible as possible. The facelift can cover the entire face or on a specific part such as the forehead, eyebrows, temples, neck. Recently some facelifts are proposed by endoscopic technique that is a smaller incision under video control. They have the advantage of smaller scars, but they tend (the remaining skin is left in place for a spontaneous contraction) was less effective in the long term.

Other techniques for tightening face

These techniques such as endoscopic facelifts are recent. The first is to be injected into certain muscles that control facial expressions, the botulinum toxin that paralyzes them. The other technique is called "skin resurfacing laser-pulsed self." This is an abrasion of the skin to smooth wrinkles. These two techniques, though they seem less aggressive, however, did not the effectiveness of a conventional facelift.

Eyelids

Eyelid surgery or blepharoplasty is a common request because of their importance in the general appearance of the face. When they are swollen or drooping, they give an impression of sadness. Eyelid surgery or can extend it by removing the excess skin through an incision below the eyelashes for the lower eyelid and the superior sulcus to the upper eyelid. This surgery may be associated with a facelift or facelift done by then when the eyebrows are also involved.

Nose

Plastic surgery of the nose or rhinoplasty is a matter of proportions. Change the size, the ridge, the tip of the nose can disrupt the harmony of a face or otherwise contribute. The surgeon's advice is essential. It is not advisable to perform this surgery before the nose has acquired its full development that is to say to teens. In practical terms, the nose reshaping is performed through incisions made inside the nostrils or between the nostrils. It's not very painful but we must wear a splint or cast metal for ten days and accept that the nose is swollen for a couple of days and finds its final shape only after several months.

Ears

Plastic surgery or otoplasty ears is often made in children from 6 or 7 years because of psychological problems that can cause the remarks of other children at school. It is practiced by an incision behind the ear and is to reshape the cartilage. The sport is generally prohibited for several weeks.

The chin and cheeks

Chin plastic surgery can correct or mentoplastie chins remote through an incision in the mouth or outside the advancing bone or by inserting a prosthesis between the bone and skin. Surgery of cheeks to accentuate the cheekbones by the establishment of an implant.