I have serious doubts regarding the aesthetic benefits of plastic surgery, particularly rhinoplasty. I’ve had two operations on my nose and I’m due to go to a specialist to hopefully correct everything in Rome in a few days. I’ve done a lot of research online over the past year and I cant believe I ever thought I needed an operation in the first place.
The only results of the plastic surgery that I have seen as a huge improvement are revision surgeries because the primary created such a dire mess. I’ve seen photos of noses with abnormally huge humps or ethnic noses with very wide widths which can be shaped to a much more pleasing shape. Other than that I have found very few, if any, before & after photos of good primary operations. Most people on here don't have a majorly problematic nose are fussing about differences to the nearest millimetre. The thing the surgeons don't want to tell you this but if nobody has ever said your nose is big or weird then it probably is just fine as it is. If you ask a stranger, what do you think is wrong with my face and they don't tell you “Your nose” then you don't need rhinoplasty. I think surgeons are facilitating this because $$$.
I see there being lots of problems with the industry
Nature can make things work and look perfect, man can not. Trying to make something perfect can make it imperfect. Its a bit like when your trying to cut a cake into a perfect circle, you take one chunk from one side, then have to even out the other side, and before you know it you have created another culinary abortion. So much surgeon talk is about symmetry but giving someone a dead straight nose might be more symmetrical but it isn't always natural looking is it. Narrowing the dorsum or bridge perfectly on both side can look very artificial. Small is not always better, especially for a man. Humps can be really attractive and a bit exotic. A slightly convex profile is often much more attractive than a slightly concave one.
Could someone please explain to me what this online nonsense regarding the Golden Ratio in facial surgery? I’m not sure but its probably a coincidence that we have have found mathematical patterns in nature and I could probably find connections to this ratio even on the face of someone who is grossly deformed if I looked for it. The whole concept of plastic surgery is to make you more aesthetically pleasing to look at, but how can you base this on symmetry when I’ve seen lots of pretty women and handsome men whose noses are not symmetrical at all?
The more stuff I look at, the more I realise you guys are literally just washing out peoples features and making them less attractive. You all are guilty at arriving at a point that you change something until there is nothing bad to say about it, and therefore that means its good, but thats not true is it?
Another issue I wanted to get off my chest is surgeons offering so many types of treatments. Plastic surgeons need to specialise in certain areas. Otherwise you are a jack of all trades and a master of none.
I think the industry has already had a revolution in that the pursuit is now the natural look whereas before plastic surgery was a status symbol and people wanted others to know they could afford it. I think the future of the industry is creating new character rather than draining it. Maybe 3D printed implants and software could help. I understand that you all work hard at your job, sorry if you've just realised you’ve spent your entire life washing out peoples features lol but I just think some surgeons are working towards the wrong goals…I’d really genuinely like to hear some opinions