Everyone's face looks alike, I don't want to look like that.
Facial rejuvenation candidate patients have such a concern. Most of the time, they express it with exactly this word sequence.
In fact, no two faces are alike in nature.
So how did it happen that the artificial facial features, which even an untrained eye can distinguish at first glance, have become almost everywhere you go.
There Are Two Main Reasons
First: Productisation of medical practice
Second Application fanaticism
Before detailing the reasons, let us review one of the basic principles not only in surgery but also in life in general.
You don't have to do something just because you can.
Those who follow my blog know that I am against giving commercial names to medical practices and against the "productisation" of practices.
Hollywood cheek, French hanger, Russian lip, almond eye aesthetics, babyface, starface, newface...
The productisation of medical procedures is a phenomenon specific to consumer societies.
It creates a "I want this product too" reflex in the consumer.
However, when it comes to human health, a "consumer" cannot be mentioned.
This mentality only depletes people's health, beauty, psychology and material resources.
In medicine, there is no motivation to have what they have.
A 30-year-old woman's motive of "all my friends have lip fillers, I should get lip fillers too" has the same basis as a teenager's motive of "all my friends have Nike Air, I want one too".
Just as I do not shop for my children just because others have it, I do not recommend my patients to have an application just because their friends have it.
My clinic is not a store where people buy aesthetic applications.
If there is a deformation that will benefit from our applications, we apply, otherwise we do not. I also determine whether there is deformation or not. It may sound a bit despotic, but this is my role as a physician in this relationship and my ethical responsibility towards my patient.
For example;
Botox if there is a hyperactive mimic deformity,
Lip filling if there is a very thin lip structure compared to other structures of the face and the average age,
Chin filling if there is a lack of volume in the chin contour that really disrupts the aesthetic continuity,
Bichectomy if the cheek fat pad is extremely large and herniated,
If the outer part of the eyebrows is lower than the inner part and the outer part of the eye, temporal lift,
If the plane between the inner and outer angles of the eye has turned negative, we can perform canthoplasty (the medical term for what is called almond eye).
The above examples can be reproduced. The main idea is that I do not perform any procedure just because the patient wants it or because someone else saw it on his/her face and liked it. "Indication" is essential in all medical applications. In aesthetic surgery, the fact that the patient wants it is not an indication alone.
What did we say? Just because we can do something doesn't mean we should.
When we start to give productised medical practices to everyone who asks for them, just because we can, we start to see people with the same faces, just as we see people wearing the same things.
The goal in facial aesthetics should only be to improve a deformation to a normal, natural level.
When you work with this principle, even if you apply 10 different applications to a patient's face, an eye looking from the outside does not understand that the person has had anything done to his/her face.
Another reason for the emergence of template faces is "application fanaticism".
This is a bit related to the surgeon's ego.
As they say, every man has his own way of eating yoghurt...
Plastic surgery is not an order of valour.
If a plastic surgeon performs the same application to each patient with a narcissistic attitude in the form of "this is my technique, this is how I do it", without considering individual differences, template results emerge. We see application fanaticism very often in rhinoplasty. Surgeons usually have a single technique that they adhere to fanatically.
You look, almost every patient has the same nose regardless of facial structure.
When you ask, he says, "This is my brand, this is my signature, whoever wants this, come to me.
I think it is an invalid argument, but I leave it to you to interpret.
There is a similar situation in facial rejuvenation surgeries.
Not every patient can have mid-facelift, not every patient can have endoscopic forehead lift, not every patient can have deep plan facelift, not every patient can have fat injection, not every patient can have canthopexy, temple lift, liplift.
Individual planning is the sine qua non of facial aesthetics.
Perform the same procedure on 10 patients and get good results in 4, average results in 4 and mediocre results in 2.
Finally, I will talk about mass production clinics and aesthetic factories.
I recommend that you stay away from mass production clinics where one patient enters and another patient enters before he/she leaves, where the doctor jumps from one room to another with an injector in his/her hand, where you can make an appointment for the procedure you want on the phone and have it done as soon as you go.
You should know that you will leave the "aesthetic surgery factories" where 5-6 nose surgeries are performed in one day, 3-4 facial rejuvenation surgeries are performed side by side, and the price is very affordable, with an average result at best. Facial rejuvenation surgeries are a boutique craft by nature and detailed planning, care in application and fine workmanship are very important.
If you are interested in facial aesthetic applications, I recommend you to consider the concepts I am trying to explain to you in this article. Do not act with consumerism, do not be a wannabe, stay away from mass production.
Stay with love
Stay Beautiful.
OB