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Michael Law, MD answers: Do cosmetic surgery patients really come in asking to look like movie stars?

Do cosmetic surgery patients really come in asking to look like movie stars?


Michael Law, MD
10 months ago

Patients do ask on occassion for an aesthetic enhancement that will result in a facial  or body feature similar to that of a feature of a celebrity,. More frequently patients want to be sure that the result of their surgery doesn't look "done" . Sometimes a patient may mention a particular celebrity with obvious plastic surgrery of the face or body and tell me, "I don't want to look like that person".

In my experience, most people seeking plastic surgery want to look the best they can look and they don't want to look like "the one who had has plastic surgery"

My personal aesthetic sensibility is this: a good aesthetic cosmetic surgery result is a result that looks natural, not 'done'. I always delight in the patient who reports that their friends or their colleagues at work say "You look fantastic!", but that they can't quite put their finger on why.  Most patients seem to want the same experience.

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