Looks DO matter - even for kids

Do looks matter, even for kids? Should we consider surgery in kids to improve on their looks?
Just ask any person with bat ears, adult or child, how they endured all the teasing while growing up. All because their ears look different from others.

A simple surgical procedure is all it takes, to transform a child's life. In bat ears, the cartilage that forms the majority of the shape of the ear (conchal cartilage), is flat and not bent backwards, resulting in a flat and featureless ear, just like a bat's. Surgery to correct bat ears involve an incision at the back of the ear, and sculpturing the cartilage and fixing it in such a way as to pin the prominent ear back. It needs surgery because some permanence is required (cartilage has "memory" - it may sometimes spring back)

This ear pin-back operation, or otoplasty, should be done as soon as the kid is conscious of it before he goes to school. It can also be done in adult-hood.

Undergoing plastic surgery should not be misconstrued as indulging in a frivolous luxury. Just ask any kid (or for that matter, any adult), with bat ears.

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Looks DO matter

We often say that what is inside is more important than what is outside. A person's character and personality rank matters more than outward appearance (and for religious believers, the soul above all else). Are looks therefore important? Should one undergo anything to enhance one's looks? Everybody is beautifully and wonderfully made, both inside and outside. Looks DO matter...it matters in getting a job, in progressing in one's career, perhaps also in relationships. It is a reflection of what is inside.

A common complaint for example is the presence of eyebags. If you have eyebags, you tend to look older and more tired than you actually are. Perhaps you are in a job that requires people to trust that you are AWAKE and ALERT in handling their deals. Having prominent eyebags surely convey the impression that you have not slept enough and perhaps, maybe, you may not be up to scratch to deal with the job at hand. This may, who knows, cause you to loose the deal. Or the eyebags betray your real age, and you really want to look younger.

Surgery affords the most effective and quickest way to remove eyebags. Using the laser to remove the eyebags help to ensure that bleeding is kept to the absolute minimum. This translates into quicker recovery and shorter down time. We are talking about the potential of being able to get back to work after a few days.

When you look better after removing those eyebags, you will feel better, and you will live better. It will influence and impact upon(for the better) your personality and character, boost your self-confidence and improve your opportunities.

Looks are not the most important thing in life, but they DO matter.

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Restoring Nature's Beauty

Everybody is beautifully and wonderfully made. Unfortunately, sometimes disease or injuries mar that beauty. October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, a month where ladies are reminded to do regular breast examinations.

But what happens when there is cancer, and the breast needs to be removed? Breast Cancer is the commonest cancer amongst women in Singapore. Because of improved and more widespread screening like annual mammograms and ultrasound surveillance, breast cancer is increasingly being picked up in younger women.

The mainstay of the treatment of breast cancer is breast removal surgery, or mastectomy, in conjunction with adjuvant therapy, either chemotherapy or radiotherapy.

When faced with the prospect of needing a mastectomy, do not despair, because that beauty need not be gone forever...it can be restored and reconstructed. Preferably with your own body tissue.

Breast removal and reconstruction techniques have so evolved that now, the end result is really very close to the original. Several refinements in surgical techniques have contributed to the restoration of nature's beauty, performed within a reasonable space of operation time of 4 to 6 hours.

Skin-Sparing Mastectomy - means that the Breast Resection Surgeon removes as little skin and nipple as is possible, and the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon is able to utilise the remaining breast skin pocket to help shape the new breast.

Simultaneous and Immediate Breast Reconstruction - means the breast reconstruction is performed at the same operation as the mastectomy. Simultaneous when the donor tissue is performed at the same time as the removal surgery, thus saving almost 2 hours of operation time.

Shortening the operative time translates into reduction in facility costs, reduction in exposure to general anaesthesia time with resultant quickened recovery time.

No doubt Breast Reconstruction means additional surgery, but that additional surgery is worth the discomfort and cost in the long-run.

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