Plastic Surgery Results on Your iPhone
Is there nothing the iPhone can not do?
Recently announced: a new plastic surgery application for the iPhone.
Its pitch is to people who are interested in cosmetic plastic surgery and may be wondering what they would look like afterwards.
Invented by a Miami Beach plastic surgeon, the iSurgeon application lets the user take a picture of his or her face or body and then upload the snapshot to the phone’s screen.
Once there, you can manipulate the features by dragging them around with your finger.
Then, once you have a picture of your newly enhanced self, you can send it off to friends.
Only thing is, plastic surgery is whole lot more complicated than moving images on a screen. For instance, in an eyelid lift, if the lids are raised too much, it will give you brighter eyes but, in reality, your eyelids may not close!
Or, say you have deep worry lines in your forehead. So you just adjust the area above the eyebrows upwards and take out all the lines. But if you take out too much, the real-life results would be a perpetual surprise look as in what happened!?
O.K., so how do you know when a little manipulation can be too much? It’s a long process known as medical school, followed by four to seven years of plastic surgery training. Take our word, it all takes years.
Additionally, plastic and cosmetic surgeons already have programs on computers that show you what can realistically be changed on the human face and body. And what you are very likely to look like after surgery.
Morphing programs upload an existing picture onto a screen and then a trained, experienced plastic surgeon shows the patient how much change can realistically be expected on a given facial or body feature.
A 2007 study, printed in the April issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery asked 12 plastic surgery experts to analyze the before plastic surgery pictures of 25 rhinoplasty patients and then figure how close the predicted pictures came to showing the actual results of nose surgery.
Results? 75 percent of the experts said the predicted picture was the same, or even better, than the surgical outcome.
The rhinoplasty article also said surgeons should be conservative when showing patients their predicted results so no false hopes would be raised.
admin @ November 30, 2009
That’s a very good point about being careful what before and after pictures you show patients. Selecting only results that are not typical can give a false impression. Yes, you still describe the expected outcome in the consultation, but people believe what they see and tend to ignore what they hear.
Clients who go into a procedure with realistic expectations are generally much happier with their results. That’s an excellent reason to provide potential clients with a full range of images showing average outcomes. Follow up pictures that depict patients several years post-op are also useful for showing how the effects look over time.
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