Have we lost our minds, here we are reading the list of the newest, trendiest cosmetic operations available in the hope to change our nose, lips, breasts and whatever else? You may say it’s a firebrand question… however the answer is no.
Specialists are setting off the alarm bell. Doctor Thomas Modschiedler qualified in reconstructive plastic and cosmetic surgery and Doctor Michel Zbili who both have practices in the south of France, are worried about a potential leeway where commercial interest and the obsession with youthism are mixing together and becoming quite perilous. There is a risk of one day losing any form of discipline. “It is important to regain some morality here and give back to the real specialist what is really theirs” say the two doctors together. ”This type of specialist doesn’t exist after all, and if you are ever tempted to believe what they tell you, then just run away!” says Doctor Zbili. So what should you do when you want to change some physical faults, gain back a youthful figure, and eliminate excess weight gained over the years? Make an appointment with a well known and established specialist.

Think before you leap
It’s this type of specialist who will listen to you patiently, who will establish a certain vote of trust. “Our job is not to operate just to operate,” confirms Doctor Modschielder, “but to talk for a longtime with the patient (I never hesitate to make the patient come back several times before the eventual operation) to be able to understand them, their desires and problems. Then I explain what we can do, I describe the operation by explaining the advantages and inconveniences, its permanent or irreversible characteristics.” In a society where everything happens ever so quickly, where appearance triumphs or where the need for perfection overrides the true being, this doctor like many others waves the red flag and asks for peace. For a serene decision to be made “the patient has to have made some preliminary work. We refuse to intervene on any stress factors. We are not treating an illness, the work is a lot more complicated. We are living in a world where we want to get rid of anything artificial but then we throw ourselves cheerfully into it whenever we feel like. It’s never endingly paradoxical. We should be integrating things so as not to be disappointed ”states once again Doctor Modschiedler. In this case once the trusting relationship has been established, once the patient has decided upon this physical intervention with a good knowledge of the process and he hasn’t got an image of his surgeon as being a doctor, the cosmetic intervention will have magnificent results. One is able to gain self respect, confidence and balance. Sometimes it takes very little…