I view elective as effectively capturing two of the three above mentioned concepts a invasive and b dubious It captures invasiveness because it s a term of art used to refer to surgical or quasi surgical procedures and no one would ever call a haircut or nail trim an elective procedure It also sufficiently captures the concept of dubious because the types of life saving procedures that we ve been talking about like tumor or gangrene removal are clearly not elective I realized that elective doesn t perfectly capture these two concepts but in my book it comes close enough that with sufficient explanation in the text we can make it fit I realize I was lukewarm on elective previously but upon further reflection am perfectly willing to go with it I don t have a strong feeling either way about the appearance changing concept especially since it doesn t fit everything e g devoicing Bottom line In addition to all the other titles including the existing one that I ve said I can live with I can also live with Scientizzle s suggestion of elective procedures on animals I also proposed something a bit different yesterday invasive animal management procedures I m not particularly invested in this idea but not having gotten any feedback thought I d at least keep it on the table in case everything else falls through