Cosmetic surgery
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery involves techniques intended for the "enhancement" of appearance through surgical and medical techniques, and is specifically concerned with maintaining normal appearance, restoring it, or enhancing it beyond the average level toward some aesthetic ideal.
The most prevalent cosmetic procedures include:
Abdominoplasty (tummy tuck): reshaping and firming of the abdomen.
Mammoplasty: Breast augmentations (breast implant): augmentation of the breasts by means of fat grafting, saline, or silicone gel prosthetics.
Mastopexy (breast lift): Lifting or reshaping of breasts to make them less saggy, often after weight loss (after a pregnancy, for example). It involves removal of breast skin as opposed to glandular tissue.
Buttock augmentation (butt implant): enhancement of the buttocks using silicone implants or fat grafting ("Brazilian butt lift") and transfer from other areas of the body.
Buttock lift: lifting, and tightening of the buttocks by excision of redundant skin.
Lip enhancement: surgical improvement of lips' fullness through enlargement.
Rhinoplasty (nose job): reshaping of the nose.
Rhytidectomy (face lift): removal of wrinkles and signs of aging from the face.
Browplasty (brow lift or forehead lift): elevates eyebrows, smooths forehead skin.
Suction-assisted lipectomy (liposuction): removal of fat from the body.
Cheek augmentation (cheek implant): implants to the cheek.
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