Plastic Surgery

Plastic comes from the Greek word plastikos, which means giving form or molding. Plastic surgery has become more popular and affordable over the past few years and more people are having procedures done. The reason that it has become so popular and cheap is because anyone with a medical license can preform it. This make plastic surgery dangerous is the customer doesn’t do their homework on the doctor that is performing their surgery. If you don’t have a board certified plastic surgeon performing surgery then you are putting your self in danger physically and financially. Many people receive bad plastic surgery from under qualified doctors every year and many of them have long-term problems or have even died.

The main problem with plastic surgery today besides that just about doctor can do it and not get in trouble is that “spas” are starting to pop up everywhere. These spas offer people plastic surgery in their facility and only use general anesthesia to perform them. The means the person is getting it while they are awake. This can be fine for some procedures but one emergency doctor that owns a business like this was doing breast argumentations, tummy tucks, and liposuction, while the patients were awake. These is the horror of plastic surgery today, you don’t have to have an accredited facility if you aren’t performing surgery without complete sedation and all you have to be is a licensed doctor to perform plastic surgery. Which means that your dentist or eye doctor can perform plastic surgery and it is totally legal.

Since there are little regulations to plastic surgery, more people are getting it and dying from preventative mistakes. Some of the most common deaths have been to embolisms, which wouldn’t have occur if it was done in a hospital and then there is overdoses of local anesthesia, which three people have died from just in one spa in Florida. The laws are getting a little better but the three strictest states are Florida, California, and New York. In Florida, since the women died of an overdose of lidocaine in Florida, a bill was passed that stated any place that removed more than one thousand CC’s of fat for liposuction has to be inspected. In California, the medical board approves all accredited plastic surgery centers and they can restrict, reject or even revoke their accreditation. New York has the strictest rules, if the office removes more than five hundred CC’s of fat or does anything that requires sedation, the facility has to be accredited.