WHAT IS COSMETIC SURGERY?

Because plastic surgeons, as part of reconstructive surgery, are involved in "molding" the skin it was natural that they became involved in cosmetic surgery, which is the surgery of altering appearance or improving self consciousness.

Some operations, such as breast reduction, are hardly cosmetic, but a derivation of this operation mastopexy (hitching up a droopy breast) obviously is.

There is no formal training for cosmetic surgeons in the UK. Anyone can call himself a cosmetic surgeon, from a general practitioner to a dermatologist to a brain surgeon.

Therefore, always check how, where and to what level your surgeon obtained his training.

Cosmetic surgery is now very specialised. No surgeon can be an expert at all operations. That is why Plastic Surgery Partners has been developed so that each surgeon can compliment the other.