Cosmetic Surgery & Beauty #73

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PLASTIC
SURGERY
TRENDS
AROUND THE
WORLD
According to the Independent UK (online), some of the
global surgery hotspots have revealed surprising new
trends. Though some counties operate as destinations
for cheaper (although not always regulated) procedures,
some emerging markets are seeing a boom for some
very particular operations.
INDIA
Often undergone in a bid to improve career and marriage
prospects, painful limb lengthening procedures are on
the rise in India, and can add as much as 7.5 cm to
someone’s height.
The procedure has been adapted from techniques
used in major trauma or in children with stunted growth.
Limbs can be encouraged to lengthen using pins
and an Ilizarov frame, which can be slowly adjusted.
The section of bone supported by the frame is
surgically ‘broken’ and over subsequent weeks the
frame is made longer.
The gap that develops fi lls with new bone. In
elective surgery, bones that don’t fuse, because of
chronic infection or poor wound healing, can lead to
amputation.
“This is one of the most diffi cult cosmetic surgeries
to perform, and people are doing it after just one or two
months’ fellowship, following a doctor who is probably
experimenting himself. There are no colleges, no proper
training - nothing,” said Dr Amar Sarin, an orthopaedic
surgeon in India.
SOUTH KOREA
The cosmetic surgery industry in South Korea is
booming. Surgery is cheap and effi cient, while the
facilities, which have come out of the old American
hospitals, are excellent and now cater for the global
medical tourism market.
South Korea has the highest per capita rate of
cosmetic surgery in the world, which has led to it
being called the global capital for plastic surgery.
Facial surgery is widespread and is used mainly to
create more V-shaped chins, smaller noses (the
second most common operation, perhaps because
nasal bridges in Asia tend to be fl atter and it’s easy to
insert implants) and to alter eye shapes. South Korea
has wholeheartedly embraced the fact that cosmetic
procedures make for profi table business, whether for
domestic or foreign patients.
IRAN
Cosmetic surgery is on the rise in Iran,
so much so that it is now among the top
countries for procedures. Liposuction,
permanent eyebrow tattooing and nose jobs
are some of the most popular procedures. In
a more conservative country where women
dress more modestly, accentuating facial
features can be one way to enhance beauty.
Javad Amirizad, a member of the
Iranian Association of Cosmetic and Plastic
Surgeons, says that of the 40,000 annual
cosmetic procedures in Iran, more than 60
per cent are rhinoplasties. The dressings
on noses after surgery are an increasingly
common sight in Tehran and have even
been nicknamed “bandages of honour.”
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