ArticlesBase.com - Free Articles Directory
Free Online Articles Directory
11.10.2008 Sign In Register Hello Guest
Email:
Password:
Remember Me 
forgot your password?


Plastic Surgery Overview

Author: Kadence Buchanan Author Ranking Blue | Posted: 23-10-2006 | Comments: 0 | Views: 139 | Rating:  (50) Article Popularity - Green (?) Got a Question? Ask.
Sign Up Now!

Plastic surgery generally refers to medical operations that mold or shape human features for esthetic or functional purposes. Contrary to what the name may indicate, plastic surgery has nothing to do with modern plastics. In this context, "plastic" is based on the Greek word "plastikos" which means to shape or to mold.

Among the most common plastic surgery procedures are the following:

The ABDOMINOPLASTY, more popularly known as the tummy tuck, removes excess fat from the stomach which serves to flatten and tighten the abdomen. The procedure takes two to five hours and patients can be back in circulation after two to four weeks. Common side effects include temporary pain, numbness, soreness and swelling.

BREAST ENLARGEMENT is a procedure that involves the insertion of inflatable saline implants into the breasts to enhance their size. The operation takes only one or two hours and the patient is back on his feet after a few days, although the breasts remain overly sensitive to touch for three to four weeks. Common side effects include temporary soreness and swelling, change in nipple sensation and bruising.

If breast enlargement is concerned with size, a BREAST LIFT is concerned with shape and is undertaken mainly to raise sagging breasts through the removal of excess skin and sculpting of the nipples and tissues. It is a one to three-hour long operations that sometimes leaves scars that heal after several months to a year or remain permanently. Patients are often back to work i a week or so.

A CHEMICAL PEEL restores wrinkled or blemished skin by peeling away the top players of the skin with the use of a chemical solution. Although this is usually an outpatient procedure, a full-face phenol peel requires a one or two-day admission. Among the side effects are acute sensitivity to the sun as well as permanent lightening of the treated area and permanent loss of the ability to tan.

COLLAGEN INJECTIONS, also known as fat injections, are used to plump up facial skin that has sunk due to age as well as to add fullness to the lips. It is a simple operation that can take 15 minutes to an hour and recovery is almost immediate.

DERMABRASION is a scraping procedure aimed at removing facial scars or wrinkles by scraping the top layers of skin with the use of a high-speed rotary wheel. It only takes a few minutes and patients can go back to work in a few weeks. Side effects include an acute sensitivity to the sun and the loss of ability to tan.

Rate this Article: Current: 0 / 5 stars - 0 vote(s).

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/non-fiction-articles/plastic-surgery-overview-66660.html

Print this Article Print article   Email to a Friend Send to friend   Publish this Article on your Website Publish this Article   Send Author Feedback Author feedback  
About the Author:
Kadence Buchanan writes articles on many topics including Cosmetic Surgery, Relationship, and Beauty
Submitting articles has become one of the most popular means of generating quality backlinks and targeted traffic to your website. Join us today - It's Free!

Article Comments

Comment on this article Comment on this article
Your Name
Your Email:
Comment Body
Enter Validation Code: Captcha


Got a Question? Ask.

Ask the community a question about this article:

Frequently Asked Questions

Green Tea
By: kathy | 07-09-2008
Does green tea loose it's antioxidants when decaffeinated?

Can domperidone cause pneumonia and or heart ...
By: lisa | 07-09-2008
can domperidone cause pneumonia and or heart problems

Tourette Syndrome
By: tricia | 07-09-2008
what are the recommended vitamin/ mineral supplements for tourette syndrome

What could be the reason of red morphea (flecks ...
By: Kristin | 07-09-2008
What could be the reason of red morphea (flecks) on legs?

Why do i have little specs of light floating in my ...
By: up n smoke | 07-09-2008
why do i have little specs of light floating in my eyes sometimes then they go away

Health
By: Vinnie | 07-09-2008
Gov. Sarah Palin you are the picture of health.  What do you take to make you look as good as you do?  I am a Health and Wellness specialist and my clients want to look like you.  You would be helping a lot of women look good if you would share that information.  I've been told that you use Juice Plus+ which is recommended by many doctors.  Is that true?  icon4health@aol.com

Q&A Powered by:
Powered by Yedda 

Latest Non-Fiction Articles

Book Marketing: the Day That is Different for Your Career Strategy
By: Rosey Dow | 06/10/2008
Make an informed decision about the direction of your writing career--print or online, or both.

In the Lap of the Gods 22
By: Steve Morgan | 05/10/2008
For those who have read the other 21 chapters

A Week in the Life of the Single Working Mother
By: Karen Dosw | 03/10/2008
A humorous article about a week in the life of one South African, single mom with two adult children and two little ones.

Why You Should Write for Free
By: Deborah Owen | 01/10/2008
Write for free? I can hear you saying, “Are you nuts?” Write for free, so you can get paid. Read more inside.

Why You Should Write for Free
By: Deborah Owen | 01/10/2008
You asked if they had a job opening. They said no. They told me “no”, too, but I got the job anyway. Read more inside.

Becoming a Reporter is Easy
By: Deborah Owen | 01/10/2008
Do you want to be a reporter? It’s a great way to break into print, and the jobs aren’t that hard to get. Read this article to learn more.

Writing it Down
By: Galina Nemirovsky | 29/09/2008
Lately I’ve developed a compulsion to write everything down. Stringing words together and composing sentences in the shower, I want to write it all down – remember it – capture it. I stare at people in the subway and craft their character descriptions in my head...

The Modern Lily Tomlin
By: Galina Nemirovsky | 29/09/2008
I’m waiting in a conference room that smells like the corner of career aspiration and stale office carpet. The overly heavy and overly bitter receptionist has a voice that is piercing through the makeshift conference room with walls that only go up about 7 feet. Like an annoying hiccup, she keeps repeating “Good morning, Hudson. Your name? Hold please.” Over and over again. She is an extra large version of what the rest of the world has automated already.

More from Kadence Buchanan

The London Multiethnic Reality
By: Kadence Buchanan | 23/10/2006 | Travel
Being one of the largest and most populated cities of Europe, London, the United Kingdom's capital is a cosmopolitan area in which a highly diverse range of peoples, cultures and religions coexist today.

Staying In Touch While Abroad
By: Kadence Buchanan | 23/10/2006 | Communication
From the times of Graham Bell's research around 1870, people have invented new and exciting ways of improving one of the first forms of communication, the telegraph. Its successor, the telephone invention, has gone a long way managing to penetrate people's lives and directing future technological innovations in a way not ever imagined by its founder.

Vacating at Niagara Falls
By: Kadence Buchanan | 22/10/2006 | Travel
Tourism travel to the Niagara Falls began in the 1820s and within 50 years it had increased ten-fold, resulting in the area's dominant industry. Today, approximately twelve million tourists each year visit the amazing Niagara Falls in order to admire up close

Experiencing A Great Golf Game
By: Kadence Buchanan | 22/10/2006 | Golf
Although great deal of interest has been recently directed to the amazing game of golf, as in all things in life, golf does maintain a fair part of its own mystery and does indeed entail change and progress.

The Hospitable Garden
By: Kadence Buchanan | 22/10/2006 | Gardening
The golden rule for a private garden's design to be successful is to concentrate on the human element. Designing a garden that is not based on peoples' ability to walk through it to admire its beauty is useless; especially when the garden exists near a house, office or is considered part of a public space.

Why You Should Adopt A Dog
By: Kadence Buchanan | 22/10/2006 | Pets
Dog adoption is made easy through the countless animal welfare organizations and animal shelters existing in every city across the United States. With literally thousands of adoptable dogs listed, a prospective dog owner can select to adopt a dog that needs a wonderful family to go to and be loved.

Begin Tennis By Selecting Shoes
By: Kadence Buchanan | 22/10/2006 | Sports and Fitness
People have come to use the term "tennis shoes" a little bit more broadly in order to categorize under this name different types of comfortable athletic type of shoes, also referred to as "sneakers" or "trainers."

The Toxoplasmosis Threat
By: Kadence Buchanan | 22/10/2006 | Pets
Since I was little I remember when friends of the family visited our house to advice me not to kiss my cat or touch her and then put my fingers in my mouth. The danger was called toxoplasmosis and although I was particularly young to understand what it was or why it was so serious.

Article Categories






Give Feedback

Sign up for our email newsletter

Receive updates, enter your email below