Imagine that one of your best friends was a plastic surgeon, wouldn't you want to ask her many questions? Surely you have many doubts related to aesthetic touch-ups and not because you have ever considered going under the knife, it may be a simple curiosity. Wish granted! We have "kidnapped" the best experts in plastic surgery to give us all that inside information. Everything you've always wanted to know about cosmetic surgery, right here.
1. Sorry, cellulite cannot be removed with surgery
Surely they have never told you so clearly, but no, cellulite is not removed with surgery. As explained by the plastic surgeon Moisés Martín Anaya, director of the Martín Anaya Clinic and member of the Spanish Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, cellulite is a chronic problem, in many cases of hormonal origin, which is aggravated by sedentary lifestyle and bad eating habits. “It has to do with cellular nutrition. If toxins increase between cells and are not eliminated through the lymphatic vessels, the unsightly orange peel will appear ”, explains the expert. Therefore, interventions such as liposuction or liposculpture DO NOT remove cellulite. It may be a little sneaky at first, but sooner or later, it will reappear.
Cellulite is eliminated with good habits, but it comes back if you lower your guard.
2. A liposuction does not save you the gym
If I do a lipo, can I unsubscribe from the gym? Absolutely not. It is true that liposuction can eliminate localized fat, but if you want to maintain long-term results, you have to follow an exercise routine and take care of your diet. Fat, like cellulite, always comes back. Do not trust yourself and continue leading an active life, no sofa!
3. Breast prostheses do not explode
Breast prostheses do not affect breastfeeding, nor do they prevent the early detection of a tumor nor, of course, they cannot explode on a plane (even if you have heard that urban legend with Ana Obregón in the middle). Their quality is such that they withstand all kinds of pressures, even under water, and can support a weight of more than 285 kilos.
4. You cannot choose a nose from a catalog
No, you can't go with a magazine and say "put this nose on me." That is if you want a natural result and not stay with the typical "operated" face. According to Martín Anaya, in each face you have to find a balance of volumes and shapes. For example, a surgeon may imitate Michelle Pfeiffer's supposedly perfect nose, but it will never fit you like her because you don't have her eyes, her mouth, or her whole facial egg.
5. The facelift is better to do it with 40 years
Many women consider the possibility of having a lift after 60, when it is more than evident that the face lacks firmness and density. However, Dr. Tomás Darío Zapata, a plastic surgeon at the Hospital de la Moncloa and the Clínica Luz, in Madrid, and at the Clínica Quirón, in Marbella, believes that they are wrong and that they should do it before: “At the age of 40 the lifting is less aggressive and the tissues hold much better for life ”. In this way, the skin looks rejuvenated for longer. So you mean that the results are not going to be good if you wait until 60? At that age, the skin responds worse in the postoperative period and, although the result is more striking at the beginning after the intervention, it is less durable in time, because the skin is no longer so dense and lacks firmness and elasticity.
6. Fat infiltrations are not forever
Or what is the same, if you want to put the ass of Kim Kardashian, you must know that it will not be forever. These touch-ups are injections of your own fat that is extracted from another part of the body and placed in the desired place, but they do not have a permanent effect. After a few months, the fat is reabsorbed by the body and eliminated through the bloodstream, leaving 20 to 40% of the initial total. For this reason, Kim Kardashian from time to time is "forced" to undergo liposuction and with the fat obtained she returns to fill her famous XXL-sized butt.
7. To eliminate the bags under the eyes it is necessary to operate
Medical-aesthetic treatments have not shown total efficacy in the bags under the eyes, so the only solution is through blepharoplasty. The bags can be inherited, appear by accumulation of localized fat or fluid retention, and their removal requires a surgical intervention of the eyelids. But don't worry, this operation is minimally invasive and is done through minimal incisions, usually inside the eyelid.
The bags can only be removed with surgery, but it is minimally invasive and its results are very good.
8. Abdominoplasty is a serious procedure
Thus, without hot packs, a tummy tuck is a lengthy and aggressive cosmetic surgical procedure. In addition to intervening at a superficial level (the skin), the deep tissues are also worked, where the blood vessels and arteries are. At least 24 hours of complete rest are required and the postoperative period is slow (and uncomfortable).
9. Aesthetic medicine cannot replace a facelift
No. The reason, according to Antonio de la Fuente, director of the Department of Plastic Surgery at the Clínica de la Fuente, is morphological. “As we get older, the deep tissues drop and the fat compartments of the face change, for this reason the cheekbones lose volume and the jaw gains volume. The lifting is capable of repositioning those tissues, in a physiological and global way ”.
On the contrary, the tensioning threads, for example, only achieve a unidirectional stretching in a certain area "and not the volume replacement necessary to recover the desired youthful appearance". The same goes for filler materials. They are a good option to soften expression lines or outline areas such as the lips, but not to correct the sagging of the face.
10. Removing a mole does not cause skin cancer
And we continue with the urban legends. On this occasion, he says that by removing a mole we awaken the tumor cells. Don't worry, it's not true. Josep González Castro, expert in dermatological surgery at IDERMA (Institute of Advanced Dermatology), in Barcelona, tells us that "it is very important to analyze a lesion removed with surgery or laser" and that it is once the result is studied when surprises may appear, but not for the act itself of removing the mole.
