Top 5 Plastic Surgery Risks That Doctors, Patients Don't Share

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Plastic surgeries promise instant beauty. Of course, who doesn't want to be beautiful? Celebrities and rich individuals are the market target of this procedure because it is costly. However, before getting under the knife, are you aware of the potential risks?

"Plastic surgery is major surgery," said Semira Bayati, a board certified plastic surgeon in Newport Beach, Calif., totalbeauty.com reported. The report suggested that, despite the doctors' expertise and skills, crazy side effects can still happen.

If you are planning to get yourself under the knife, give it a serious thought first. Here are the top five things that doctors and patients who underwent the plastic surgery procedures do not talk about.

1. Scarring - Many believe that how bad the scarring depends on the surgeon's skill. However, according to Bayati, it depends on the patient's genetic factors. A skilled plastic surgeon "can do the same exact closure on two different people, and one heals with imperceptible scars and one doesn't," she explained. Bayati noted that individuals with a darker complexion and high skin pigmentation have a high risk for developing scars.
2. Fats appear on unwanted places after a liposuction - Dr. Fardad Forouzanpour corrected the wrong notion that getting a liposuction will move the fats to another area of the body. He stressed that the fat cells in one's stomach or thighs remain in their position but getting a liposuction means removing certain fat cells. When one gains weight, the fats will be gained in areas that haven't been lipo'd because it still have 100 percent of their fat cells. So if you get your stomach lipo'd and you gained 15 pounds post lipo, you will probably have a flat tummy but extra plump arms.
3. Breast gap - breast implant can result to large gap between breasts due to very wide and depressed sternum or breastbone. Women have irregular breastbones and rib cages, for this reason, four out of 10 in every woman with breast implants go back to their surgeon to have them changed.
4. Fixing botched plastic surgery is more painful and costly - "The plastic surgeon fixing the botched procedure is assuming a new level of risk when taking on this patient," said Dr. Leonard Tachmes. "They are re-operating on scarred tissue with poor blood supply -- it basically becomes advanced reconstructive surgery," which explains the price hike.
5. Complications -Per Healthline, plastic surgery may result in any of these complications: hematoma, nerve damage, infection, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, seroma, blood loss, anesthesia complication and even general dissatisfaction on appearance.

What do you think of these risks? Are you still determined to have a plastic surgery after learning all of these? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.