Cosmetic surgery

- a surgical or medical technique or procedure -

enhance people’s appearance

- aesthetic surgery - involved many body areas

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4 Advantages of Cosmetic Surgery

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 Improves Quality of Life Benefits Male
Retention

Advantages Helps to Gain Self-Confidence

of Cosmetic
Surgery Helps to Reduce Psychological Issues

Improves Physical Health

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Cosmetic Surgery
Improves Quality
Of Life Benefits
Mate Retention
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 Improve Quality Of Life
• In a study of Dreher et al. (2016),

16 studies went
1,715 studies 20 studies through
screened included quantitative
analysis

• To determine the quality of life after surgery

• The results indicates quality of life improved after surgery

Source: Quality of Life and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Retrieved: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5054993/
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 Benefit Mate Retention
• In the studies done by Atari et al. (2017) in
Tehran, Iran
• The results shows a positive association
between consideration of cosmetic surgery as
part of women’s mate retention strategy.

Source: Consideration of Cosmetic Surgery As Part of Women’s Benefit-Provisioning Mate Retention Strategy
Retrieved: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01389/full
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• Therefore, women should consider cosmetic surgery to maintain long-
term mate.

• Generally, cosmetic surgery provide opportunities by changing

someone’s life in terms of physical, social, psychological and
emotional.

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 Cosmetic surgery helps to gain self-confidence
of the people

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 Case reported by
Robert A. Ersak (2017):
- 15-year-old girl
- Ehlers-Danlos
syndrome
- Bad self-image
- Gained her self
confidence after the
cosmetic surgery

Source:
Parjournal.net:
Teen aesthetic surgery may eliminate bullying
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 Study of Ip & Ho (2019)

Three interviewees experienced childhood

trauma

Interviewee A
Interviewee B
&C

1. “ Pork Chop”
1. Neglected by parents
2. Unsatisfied with body image
2. Two younger sisters
3. Less attention from parents
4. Doesn’t feel loved
Source: Presented By: Ling Sze Huey
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00540/full 1902917
 Cosmetic surgery helped them:
Interviewee A Interviewee C
-Underwent cosmetic surgery since -Start taking slimming pills since between
primary school. primary six & secondary one

No one call them

“pork chop” again

Interviewee B
- Want to get the parents’
attention

- Parents pay attention to her

- Bring her out along
Source:
- Introduced her to relatives
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.20 - Feel proud Presented By: Ling Sze Huey
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Cosmetic Surgery Helps to Reduce The Psychological Issues of Patients

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Dissatisfied about own’s body appearance

psychological disorders and anxiety

among people.

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Maisel, Waldman, Furlan, Weil, Sacotte, Lazaroff, Lin, Aranzazu, Avram,
Bell, A., Cartee, Cazzaniga, Chapas, Crispin, Croix, DiGiorgio, Dover,
Goldberg, Goldman, Green, & Alam (2018).

Self-reported patient motivations for seeking cosmetic

procedures

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 Milothridis, Pavlidis, Haidich, & Panagopoulou (2016)

A systematic review of the factors predicting the

interest in cosmetic plastic surgery.

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 Successful cosmetic
surgery - enhance patient’s
body appearance

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Ip & Ho
(2019)
Healing
childhood
psychological
trauma and
improving
body image
through
cosmetic
surgery

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Alzahrani, Kattan, Ezzat, Alsaleh, Murad & Alghamdi
(2017)
A psychosocial analysis of the effect of body-contouring
surgery on patients after weight loss

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Cosmetic
Surgery
Improves
Physical Health

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 • Besides enhancing physical appearance, study shows that
cosmetic surgery can resolve physical complaints as well

1 Study done by Taylor et al., as 2 Study done by Grella, Del

cited in Wolters Kluwer Health Torto, Nicoletto & D’Andrea
(2018) (2019) Isaac Law Lik Jun
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 Retrieved from https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180228174905.htm

• According to the study done by Taylor et al., as sited in Wolters Kluwer Health
(2018) on 214 women after childbearing , cosmetic surgery such as
abdominoplasty can alleviate postpartum back pain and urinary incontinence
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 Abdominoplasty

D. Alastair Taylor Postpartum Back Pain Urinary Incontinence

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 • Based on the study results, the
percentage of postpartum back
pain and urinary incontinence
sufferers was reduced from 51%
to 9% and 42.5% to less than
2% respectively six months after
undergoing abdominoplasty
(Taylor et al., as cited in Wolters
Kluwer Health, 2018)

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Retrieved from https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180228174905.htm
 • Besides helping women
after childbearing, another
study done by Grella, Del
Torto, Nicoletto & D’Andrea
(2019) on 15 obese patients
shows that abdominoplasty
can enhance postural
stability in morbid obese
patients

Retrieved from
https://journals.lww.com/annalsplasticsurgery/Abstract/20
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rbid.17.aspx Presented by: Isaac Law Lik Jun
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• According to the above research, we can conclude that aesthetic
surgery can provide medical benefits as well.

• In short, cosmetic surgery can improve physical health by resolving

physical complaints.

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Advantages of Cosmetic Surgery:
• improve physical health
• increase self-confidence
• reduce the mental or psychological issues
• Bring more opportunity in their life

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Suggestion

do not have a natural good

physical appearance and body
image - make changes through
cosmetic surgery

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