Can cosmetic surgery make you perfect?

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Plastic surgery is a medical field of expertise concerned with the "correction" or restoration of form and function—a surgery that involves doing everything feasible to make the subject feel good and self-assured. Often when you look in the mirror, you may spot a bodily attribute that displeases your eyes—in extreme cases, a disfiguration that lowers self-esteem to such an extent that you find yourself spiralling into depression. In such circumstances, cosmetic surgery can offer astounding possibilities to restore normal mental state and live a positive life thereafter.

But can cosmetic surgery really make a person look and feel perfect?

Cosmetic surgeries of face are basically carried out to improve someone's look or patch up facial blemishes to the point of perfection. Majority of the time the face improves, however, in rare cases it may also turn uglier, with a line of side-effects following. As far as perfection is concerned, cosmetic surgery can’t make you absolutely perfect. Since everyone's view of "perfect" is different, the results obtained through plastic surgery can make you look relatively faultless to yourself, but to others it may look freaky!

Struggling to mold oneself into social standards of perfectness is more of a fool's pursuit as these standards, being dynamic, changes with the shifting epoch. Chasing physical perfection is about as prolific as chasing a shadow, and even people who go about in pursuit of what they have theorized as perfection usually do not end up contented or feeling any closer to perfection.

I once interviewed a woman on social media who underwent a breast augmentation to restore the shape and volume of her breasts that had turned saggy after pregnancy. Augmentation usually involves implanting silicone gels into breasts thereby changing the cup size and breast shape to minimize the effects of pregnancy, nursing, physical deformity and aging. In case of my interviewee, surgery effectively refurbished the profile of her breasts, making it look even better. It boosted her self-esteem and improved her sex life a great deal. I asked her: Do you think you’ve now got the perfect breast a woman can have? She replied rather amusingly, “There is no such thing as "perfection" for me, it’s a subjective thing. The surgery has indeed made me feel better about myself, nevertheless, pleasing others means more to me than feeling perfect from within.” And that’s true of a majority of celebrities undergoing cosmetic surgery.

 

So here’s the bottom line: Cosmetic surgery can indeed fill you with self-esteem and confidence, but approaching the surgeon with right attitude and mind-set is crucial. While millions of people around the world benefit from cosmetic surgery every year, it is imperative to implement right decisions concerning the surgery and evaluate the risks implicated.

originally published in seshn.com