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Body Image Doesn't Change After Facelift, Nose Job Fri Feb 8, 2:21 PM ET

By Charnicia E. Huggins NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - While getting a nose job or a tummy tuck may make a female patient feel better about her nose or stomach, it may not lead to increased satisfaction with her overall body image, according to recent study findings.

"The findings do suggest that improvements in body image may be limited to the feature altered by surgery," lead study author Dr. B. Sarwer of the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia told Reuters Health. "Cosmetic surgery is not a panacea for someone who is dissatisfied with his or her overall appearance." To investigate, Sarwer and his colleagues surveyed 45 female cosmetic surgery patients, both before their operation and afterwards. On average, the patients were about 40 years old and had been considering surgery for nearly 5 years. The most common procedures were blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery), rhinoplasty (nose jobs) and breast augmentation, followed by rhytidectomy (facelift), breast reduction and liposuction. Almost 90% of the patients said they were "extremely" or "somewhat" satisfied with the results of their operation, and most rated the feature that they had the operation performed on as significantly more attractive than it was before their operation. The patients reported being less embarrassed about the part of their body altered by surgery and less emotionally upset when people commented about the body part. They also spent less time feeling upset about the feature operated on and fewer days per month trying to camouflage the feature with either clothes or makeup. But the patients' overall body image did not change after surgery, the researchers report in the January issue of the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Overall, these findings "suggest that cosmetic surgery may help some people feel better about aspects of their appearance," Sarwer said. SOURCE: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2002;109:363-369. MM Comments: Read any of Dr. Max Maltwell's (sp?) Books, and he will tell you the same thing from many years of experience! ============================================================

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