These are people such as Janet, a vivacious platinum blonde who at age 70 lifts weights, walks a mile in 17 minutes, acts in amateur theatricals and loves oddball adventures like spelunking in faraway caves and walking over glaciers. She isn't embarrassed about the facelift she had last year but won't give her last name for another reason. Since the surgery, she has been dating a man 20 years younger, and she doesn't want him to know her true age. I'm not going to live on someone else's schedule. I think you can be whatever you want to be, do what you want to do.
Anesthesiology is safer and better.
A new 4-millimeter endoscope, a tube with an attached fiberoptic camera, allows cosmetic surgeons to do forehead and face lifts with tiny incisions and to watch their work on overhead screens. New erbium lasers are cooler than their predecessors and can be safely used not only on the face but on thinner, more delicate skin on areas such as the neck and chest. Liposuctions now are done with smaller fat-sucking devices or ultrasonic probes that liquefy fat before removing it, also decreasing blood loss. And as procedures improve and competition grows, prices drop. The surgery is even becoming an affordable fashion statement for middle-class folks.