facial plastic surgery fellowship"

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What is the side effect of having facial plastic surgery? I saw a woman with saggy and elastic nose in the train today, I knew she had a nose job and everyone was like looking at her. Do you think that she knows ppl are looking at her and does she knows that she looks ugly infront of the mirror? does she need a fellowship?

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The Real Risks of Plastic Surgery Currently, more than 257,000 of the cosmetic procedures done on teens are nonsurgical ones such as chemical peels, microdermabrasion, and collagen injections. "These are all procedures that are often used to treat acne scarring," Corcoran says. The most common plastic surgery procedures in teens are done on the nose and almost 43,000 of these surgeries were done in 2003, according to data from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. The second most common plastic surgery procedure among teens is otoplasty, a procedure that reshapes ears so that they lay flat against the head. "I was surprised by otoplasty data because I consider this an operation for little boys. In girls their hair usually covers the ears, but as they reach their teens they may want to try different styles and the ears become a problem," she says. Corcoran says that the ear repair is one surgery that is easily justified because many children are ridiculed because they have funny-looking ears. "That can lead to aggression on the part of the child, which interferes with school work and with the ability to make friends," she says. Often psychologists will refer boys to her for this surgery. She says that one boy was referred because he was having a great deal of difficulty in school and the problem was so severe that Medicaid agreed to pay for the procedure. Corcoran notes that six months after surgery the boy's mother reported that her patient was much happier in school and at home. The fighting, she says, was no longer a problem. Yet, not all pediatricians are comfortable with the concept of plastic surgery for teens. For example, Michael Wasserman, MD, a staff pediatrician at Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans, tells WebMD that the risk of cosmetic surgery is often not fully understood by either the teen or the teen's parents. "There is always a risk associated with surgery and I think this needs to be clearly communicated."

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