Posted November 17, 2010 in Blog, Celebrity Plastic Surgery, Uncategorized
Colin Stewart of the Orange County Register asked a most intriging question,“How true is the statement: Plastic surgery is so advanced now that anyone with money can become stunningly beautiful?”
One of the lessons from the “Housewives of Beverly Hills”, and unfortunately many of the woman shopping Fashion Island, South Coast Plaza, and Rodeo Dr. in BH is that “No matter how much money someone has, they can still seem to find a “cosmetic physician” who apparently studied Picasso’s proportions while missing the lesson on da Vinci’s “Golden Ratio” of the face”.
Plastic surgery and the tools (non-invasive fillers, lasers, fat transfer, etc.) now available are the best that they have ever been in history. In the hands of the plastic surgeon with a classical sculptor’s skill and sense of natural beauty, a “so-so” appearance can be transformed to a stunningly beautiful appearance. Usually patient’s can have at most a 1 to 2 “grade” improvement. In other words, a “C” may become a “B” or “A”. To become stunning, one has to have a pretty good starting point (Angelina Jolie), otherwise there is the risk of transforming the appearance into that of past contestants on the make over show “The Swan”(actually the example below is pretty good, but many of the contestants looked very unnatural and “plastic”.)
One of the most transforming and life changing surgical procedures is rhinoplasty. When the nose steals the focus of a face from the eyes and other facial features, a rhinoplasty that addresses the distracting feature allowing attention to go to the eyes will definitely change “so-so” to stunning. Again, rhinoplasty is most dependent upon the rhinoplasty surgeon.<
For the most part, the technologies that allow us to keep the patient’s skin healthy, replace lost volume in the face, and keep their overall lifestyle helping them from the inside out are here now, and available to those with money. More so than with other “purchases” the art and science of going from so-so to stunning is not a commodity that can be bought, rather where patient’s efforts should be concentrated is on choosing the plastic surgeon with the eye for beauty and how to attain it for their patients in the most safe and effective manner.
As my brilliant colleague and mentor Rebecca Fitzgerald, MD, Los Angeles said at a recent teaching presentation, “Aging is like that new noise in your car. If you take care of it when it first appears, it will be less expensive, and a lot easier to fix!”
Happy, Healthy Thanksgiving!
