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The influence of plastic surgery "reality TV" on cosmetic surgery patient expectations and decision making.
[BACKGROUND] The aim of this study was to survey first-time patients seeking cosmetic surgery and examine what role "reality TV" played in their perception of the risks and benefits of surgery and their overall decision-making process. [ME…
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Measuring outcomes in plastic surgery: body image and quality of life in abdominoplasty patients.
Abdominoplasty is an increasingly common aesthetic surgery procedure that has yet to be evaluated using the most recently developed and psychometrically sophisticated measures of body image and quality-of-life outcomes. This study prospecti…
- Who chooses to undergo reconstructive surgery? Empirically confirming the subjectivity and social basis of body image.
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Psychological factors in cosmetic plastic surgery: recent developments in patient care.
The goal of cosmetic surgery is to facilitate improvement in the patient's psychological functioning primarily by modifying the patient's body image. This article updates the professional literature on recent developments in the study of th…
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Plastic surgery and psychotherapy in the treatment of 100 psychologically disturbed patients.
This paper reviews the senior author's long-term experience with the surgical-psychiatric treatment of 100 aesthetic surgery patients with significant psychological disturbances. Patients with psychological disturbances of a magnitude gener…
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Patients seeking symmetrical recontouring for "perceived" deformities in the width of the face and skull.
This article describes plastic surgery patients who sought symmetrical recontouring of the width of the face and skull. The basic demographic and personality characteristics of these facial width deformity (FWD) patients and the surgical pr…