Archive for April, 2011
Surgery For Facial Scars – Moving Towards a Scarless Society
When the skin is in the process of recovering from any injury (accident, surgery, burns, or acne) scarring will occur. Once a scar forms, it is permanent and most people are self-conscious about facial scars. Facial plastic surgery helps to make scars less noticeable and hence boost your self esteem.
What is a scar?
A scar results from the biologic process of wound repair in the skin. Thus, scarring is a natural part of the healing process. The composition of a scar may vary – appearing flat, lumpy, sunken, colored, painful, or itchy.
Is Facial Scar Treatment For You?
A person considering facial scar revision must understand that there is no way to remove scars completely. The goal is to improve the appearance of the scar either by disguising it, relocating it, or minimizing its prominence. Skin color and type, age, and the type of scarring, are all important factors and are a part of the discussion prior to surgery.
Facial Beauty and Plastic Surgery – What Makes a Face Attractive?
In plastic surgery, we continually strive to make every face that we operate on better. Sometimes the facial problem is easy and the surgery straightforward. Other times, the facial problem is more difficult to identify and takes more careful analysis.
Knowing what makes a face attractive is important of we are to try and change a face to make it so. We know it when we see someone attractive but it may be hard to know why we think so.
Beauty is thought to be subjective and emotional and the question of what makes a face attractive can seem to be impossible to answer. Research studies in the past ten years or so, however, has shown that there is a scientific basis to an aesthetically-pleasing face…and it can be specifically measured.A beautiful face should be symmetric from side to side. The most attractive faces are those that have a remarkable amount of evenness between the right and left sides. This has been demonstrated through a photographic mirror-image technique. A picture is taken and a line is drawn down the middle.
Rectify Facial Deformity Due to Removal of Cancerous Spots Through Facial Reconstruction
The face is one of the most common places to come up with skin cancer. Why? Well, it’s the one area that has been regularly exposed to the sun as it is not covered with clothing. The ears, nose, neck, forehead, lips, cheeks are all top targets for the damaging rays of the sun.
When lesions of cancer appear, it can be devastating to a person’s appearance to have the diseased spots removed and can leave a person disfigured without some reconstructive help. Luckily, there are many miracles that plastic surgeons can perform on one’s face to return them to attractiveness and normalcy.
There are three main types of skin cancer which a person may be the victim of: basal cell, squamous cell and melanoma. Melanoma is the most dangerous and can be life threatening because of its ability to spread throughout the body. Squamous cell is the second most dreaded form of skin cancer and basal cell carcinoma is the most common and the most curable.