Advanced Cosmetic Surgery Procedures
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Cosmetic surgery is the most popular form of plastic surgery. It’s mainly done to maintain, enhance, or restore the appearance of a person through various surgical techniques. Today, aesthetic plastic surgery is commonly performed using the latest medical knowledge, skills, and equipment. Advanced cosmetic surgery procedures are usually done more accurately, faster, and safer compared to the older types of operation. Also, they’re characterized with speedy healing process.
Among the latest and popular procedures people seeking vital improvements in their appearances are tummy tucks, ear pinning and reshaping, and septoplasty.
Tummy tucks are performed to tighten abdominal muscles and reduce the skin in that part of the body. Stretched skin and muscles due to pregnancy and obesity are the common reasons people have this operation. It’s often mistaken for liposuction, which removes fat deposits. However, tummy tuck and liposuction can be done as complementing procedures.
General anesthesia or local anesthesia with mild sedation is given to the patient before the procedure. The surgery itself begins with a long incision from one hip bone to another. After your skin is separated from your abdominal wall, the abdominal muscles, which have been stretched apart, are stitched and tightened. Excess skin will also be removed. Incisions will be stitched. The surgery may last from 2 to 5 hours.
Protruding or misshaped ears that are birth defects or results of injuries or other unfortunate circumstances are corrected through this procedure. Most children have this procedure not for mere aesthetic purposes, but also to avoid any possible psychological effects like teasing or bullying due abnormal appearance of the ears.
Before the ears can be shaped and placed back toward the head, the doctor has to remove skin and cartilage from behind the ears. To keep the new shape of the ears, stitches are done and expertly concealed in the folds behind the ear. Sometimes cartilage need not be removed. Instead, the doctor folds the cartilage back on itself with stitches that are also neatly done along the natural crease behind the ear.
This isn’t exactly a purely cosmetic surgery. It’s highlighted here as one of the advanced cosmetic surgery procedures, because it still isn’t very common, for one thing. In addition, this treats a deviated septum, which is a condition that is highly visible and causes problems both in your breathing and in your looks. The septum is the wall that separates your nostrils. It’s also confused with rhinoplasty – the common cosmetic surgery that targets the improvement of the appearance of your nose. Septoplasty is very often done with rhinoplasty.
This outpatient procedure lasts for about 1 to 2 hours. The surgeon will separate your nasal lining from its underlying cartilage and bone. He will trim or straighten the bent cartilage and replace the lining over the cartilage and bone. A nasal splint will be put in your nostrils to aid in stopping the bleeding.
These are just three of the advanced procedures performed surgery experts today. If you’d also like to know about the most common types, visit our common types of cosmetic surgery procedure page.


