Plastic surgery and you

Influence of Plastic Surgery in Modern Life
Nowadays social networks definitely dominate our personal relationships more than telephone and email do. Plastic surgery does not escape, and one of the main ways of communicating with our patients are social networks Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

In addition, by email many people make their inquiry and then go for a personal evaluation.

Thanks to social networks, the follow-up and friendship that emerges with our patients is easier.

Recently, through our Facebook group * we talked about the influence that plastic surgery has on daily life and I want to share it with you.

• What is the utility of plastic and reconstructive surgery?
The functional and aesthetic reconstruction of tissues.
RECONSTRUCTIVE: restore function after injuries, traumas or cancer.
AESTHETICS: Improve physical appearance due to advanced age, changes in weight and after pregnancies.

• How have advances in plastic surgery been achieved?
The most significant events through which surgery has developed in a general sense are wars, since there are no techniques to treat traumas and mutilations, the doctors had to improvise and from there the most advanced techniques have emerged.

• What has Plastic Surgery popularized?
The cinema, Hollywood, the media.

• How do children see plastic surgery?
When a mother practices a surgical procedure, it is always important to explain to the children in question, since children usually worry when they see their mothers in a state of convalescence; Tell them it is to improve and look prettier. It is sometimes disconcerting for the little ones to see their mom in the recovery stage and at the same time notice them happy with the new changes in their body.

• What influence does plastic surgery have on adolescents?
Because of the stage of emotional development they encounter, adolescents are very sensitive to positive and negative influences. Cosmetic plastic surgery is not a game and is reserved for people over 18 years of age.

There are some procedural exceptions in children and young people such as the case of otoplasty, (prominent ears); Gynecomastia (breast enlargement in young males) and breast reduction due to mammary hypertrophy and gigantomastia in adolescent women.

• What expectations should patients have?
What each person expects from plastic surgery is variable, there are patients with realistic expectations of what surgery can do for them and there are those who dare to think that plastic surgery is magic.

• How are candidates for plastic surgery evaluated?
The protocols include 12 laboratory tests, electrocardiogram, cardiovascular and respiratory evaluation. Also pre anesthetic review.

If the patient is a smoker spirometry and stop smoking strictly 15 days before and one month after surgery. If you have an uncontrolled disorder of the thyroid gland, evaluation by endocrinology.

• How much is the recovery period of a plastic surgery?
In general, two weeks.

• How can an interested person know their budget?
Via telephone, by email or through social networks.
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