The cosmetic surgery procedures that you expect will make you more attractive could actually deliver the opposite result. When performed by bogus doctors, under-qualified surgeons, or surgeons who take short cuts to save money, cosmetic procedures can actually leave you physically marred.
Plastic surgeons are not the only professionals performing facelifts these days. Dentists are now using techniques that can improve your bite and smile while also taking years off your appearance.
Just as your skin needs sun block for protection against the sun’s harsh ultraviolet (UV) rays, your eyes need protection, too. In fact, UV radiation is one of the greatest threats to the eyes, with effects that are three times greater in the summer than in the winter.
I lay in the bed at the LASIK surgical facility, eyes pried open with what appeared to be some medieval torture device, the wild-eyed surgeon coming at me with a scalpel. His accomplice, the nurse, stood ready behind him, aiming the high-tech laser system that was to obliterate my entire ocular cavity.
Breasts of titanium may be in many women’s futures as plastic surgeons get serious about breast support. Titanium mesh can now be used to permanently support breast implants.
That’s a question more and more men may be getting as the cosmetic surgery revolution inches its way into that eternal mystery known as the male mind.
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