Jancen Cosmetic Surgery | FAQ: What is the purpose of Cosmetic Surgery?

As a result of the increasing recognition by physicians of the importance of emotional and social favors in health care, Cosmetic Surgery has acquired a new and unique role in medicine during the past few decades. Originally, its essential purpose was to repair disfigurations caused by war, accidents, or birth defects. But while that is still a significant function, cosmetic surgery is now directed primarily toward enhancing the quality of a patient’s life. It employs advanced surgical techniques to correct undesirable physical attributes that become obstacles to social acceptance and the self-confidence necessary for healthy and productive relationships.

Throughout history, people have sought ways to disguise imperfections in their features and signs of advancing age, but until recently, little could be done to improve upon what nature provided or stall the effects of time. An outsized nose, like the poet Cyrano de Bergerac’s, had to be endured with courage. For lines and wrinkles, a receding or protruding chin, baldness, small or sagging breasts, rolls of fat, or the multitude of other deficiencies that afflict beatuy-conscious mankind, there was no remedy; only disguises with cosmetics, wigs, pads, and corsets.

Today, more than 1,500,000 people a year in the United States undergo cosmetic surgery to correct these and other problems. Because of the introduction of antibiotics and new anaesthetics since World War II, the operations are relatively safe and involve little pain. Many can be performed in the doctor’s office or in a hospital or an outpatient basis at 30 to 60 percent less than the cost that if overnight hospitalization was required.