As plastic surgeons specializing in cosmetic surgery, we have often wondered how our specialty fits into traditional medicine. We have concluded that it doesn't - at least not easily. But these questions are inappropriate for cosmetic surgery. The patient is not sick. One doesn't need cosmetic surgery like one might need an appendectomy.
Cosmetic surgery addresses something else.
Cosmetic surgery is in its infancy. The con of the birthday, which can be equally damaging, for we use birthdays as the sole measurements of how old we are. Our Faces Age Three Ways. Our lineage determines whether we are in a family line of droopers, wrinklers or gaunters. Cosmetic surgery can minimize these aging effects and have us look more like we feel inside.