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SPECIALITY
COSMETIC PROCEDURES
MORE THAN VANITY
Rather than being fuelled by a singular desire to be more physically attractive, patients
seeking cosmetic procedures are driven by emotional, physical, social and professional
reasons, a JAMA Dermatology study shows.
Even though cosmetic procedures But, rather than being fueled
change a patient’s appearance, by a singular desire to be more
vanity isn’t the only motivator physically attractive, the results of
behind decisions to undergo these a new JAMA Dermatology study
treatments. According to recent revealed patients report emotional,
research, the reasons patients patients report physical, social, and professional
might choose a cosmetic therapy emotional, reasons for seeking cosmetic
are more complicated. procedures to change their
physical, appearance.
According to a 2017 American social, and
Society for Dermatologic Surgery professional Ultimately, study authors concluded,
survey, the patient population reasons having a better understanding of
considering cosmetic procedures for seeking these personal motivations can
has more than doubled from 30 help dermatologists better counsel
percent in 2013 to 70 percent cosmetic patients on which procedures might
in 2017. The most commonly procedures be most effective, as well as what
requested dermatologist-performed realistic results are.
treatments are light and laser
therapy, facial rejuvenation In the first prospective, national,
injections, chemical peels, and body
sculpting. 8
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