As in, with more extreme procedures, why is it that they sometimes go horribly wrong? Is there some element of luck, or surgeon incompetence, or something else entirely?
And if it’s one of the first two, then why is it still popular, even among people that aren’t *obsessed* with perfecting their body?
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It’s popular because most surgeries don’t get botched. So many celebrities and non celebrities have them but only a handful become famous for how botched they are.
Think Bella Hadid, she went from very average looking to super model looking thanks to very tasteful and well done plastic surgery.
The ones that do get botched are usually a combination of a celebrity wanting more work done than their face can handle but being willing to pay for it anyway, and doctors accepting to do them even though they know the result won’t be natural.
Sometimes it’s bad luck and a lack of skill.
It can be any reasoning, really. From celebrities going to all-lengths to get the specific procedure they want regardless of the recommendations of morally sound professionals to a point that they risk getting them done in sketchy-cheap places by surgeons with outdated licenses (basement surgeons), dangerous methods of doing the procedures (search for Cardi B and Alejandra Guzman botched butt augmentations), and bad hygiene or sterilization that promotes infections; to immoral surgeons that prefer a paycheck rather than the well-being of their patient; to the patients themselves having so many procedures that there’s simply not enough material to work with, which causes the inevitable botch that we see so often.
The best surgical a/o cosmetic procedures go completely unnoticed, and we really only know about the botched ones because they’re the loudest, and most obvious to pick apart.
A lot of the prominent Hollywood actors and singers have had nose revisions, rhinoplasties, blepharoplasties, hair transplants, liposuction, breast augmentation, and cosmetic injections like filler or Botox, but we don’t “notice” unless something goes completely haywire.
Surgeries are popular because they work, and because in a perfect world, they’re performed by a team of professionals following a controlled, strict, and sterile procedure that produces an accurate result. A few bad apples don’t spoil the bunch when it comes to plastic surgery. Celebrities, and most self-aware people, are willing to spend top dollar for something that could be dangerous to their physical health a/o mental health, just like a regular patient pays top dollar for Lasik eye surgery, sterilization, gastric bypass, appendix removal, etc.
If something improves quality of life, regardless of how miniscule the change is, people are willing to risk anything to get it.
Expertise comes from practice.
Whenever you want to have any surgery done, you should make sure the surgeon is a professional.
Let’s say you want to have a nose surgery. Not the only but one of the most important indicators of a professional surgeon is always the number of specific surgeries he is performing per year or has performed in his career. If you are living on the countryside and go to the next hospital that offers “nose jobs” but you find out they perform only 8 per year, this is definitely not where you should go.
Bodies are complex. Surgery is complex.
I’m not an expert by any means, but as an example say you’re trying to inject silicon etc. In to the body. You need to get it in between two layers that are thin and aren’t designed to have bits between them. It’s not hard to see how even an expert makes a mistake.
Infections happen sometimes. You can obviously minimise risk but it’s just not always possible. And the surgeon can’t be responsible for how the patient cares for their wound at home. Which can bring infections.
Scars are sometimes unpredictable. You can’t say exactly how a wound will close and scar over. Can lead to unusual results.
Basically it’s really hard with small margins for error and definitely some random luck involved.
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