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After all, whether you want to have a tummy tuck, breast implants, these are procedures that involve a major operation, often under general anaesthetic. Procedures are known as ‘invasive’ surgery where they involve cutting into your skin – and the term itself should tell us something. Finding a surgeon and a treatment should not, therefore, be taken lightly.
Rajiv Grover, consultant plastic surgeon at London’s King Edward VII Hospital and a member of the BAAPS council, points out that cosmetic surgery is just as complex as other types of medical operations – and should be taken as seriously.
He says: “You have to focus on what cosmetic means. It sounds like a beauty treatment, but it requires the same skill as any surgical operation. It’s just as difficult and complicated as any other surgery.” For the right guidance, he says, you need to go beyond the small ads at the back of women’s magazines. “If you wouldn’t treat breast cancer by looking at the back of a magazine, why would you try to find a cosmetic surgeon there?”
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