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There are many new gadgets, “non-invasive” procedures, 15-minute face-lifts, miracle creams, and painless skin tighteners. I believe the makers of such products, and some of the “physicians” who “endorse” or “highly recommend” such products or procedures prey shamelessly on the average consumer. THERE IS NO LEGITIMATE SCIENTIFIC STUDY THAT DEMONSTRATES ANY REVERSAL IN AGE-RELATED WRINKLES, CREASES, OR DIVOTS WITH THE — USE OF ANY CREAM, MAGIC SPELL OR POTION—NONE—PERIOD. This is not to say that most consumers are stupid or uninformed. Most are fed poor-quality, pre-intervention and post-intervention photographs with changes in lighting, background and focus (or complete absence of focus). People are trained to pick up on this. They see a change for the better and attribute it to a miracle treatment.
There has also been a media push to embellish medical advances. This misleads the average patient into believing that “new” techniques are somehow better, less invasive, and with the added benefit of less downtime. Patients are fed nonsense about “minimally invasive plastic surgery” and they believe it. To understand why the term is laughable, we need to go back to the origins of minimally invasive surgery. The entire purpose of laparoscopic surgery was, and is, two-fold. Using very small incisions to perform intra-abdominal, intra-pelvic, or intra-thoracic surgery allowed patients to return to activity quicker, because most pain caused by such surgery is related to the incisions across skin and muscle.
The second purpose is obviously to improve the cosmetic appearance of scars by making them tiny. Plastic surgery, however, for the most part, focuses on skin. There may be too much, too little, it may need to be reshaped, etc. Plastic surgeons operate on skin. To say that an operation designed to remove, add or reshape skin can be performed by not making incisions in the skin is downright silly.
