The Cosmetic Surgery Blog

A study of college students' body images, published in the journal Sex Roles showed that men and women were both more likely to have negative body images if they believed in traditional gender roles than if they believed in less traditional ones.

The study confirms that gender roles are normative not only in behaviors, such as men feeling the need to work to support their families and feeling uncomfortable about staying home to care for children, but also in physical images. Thus, men who believe they are supposed to be more masculine are more likely to be troubled by Gynecomastia (enlarged male breast tissue) than those who do not feel it necessary to live up to traditional images of masculinity.

Similarly, women are more likely to be troubled by small breasts and seek breast augmentation if they believe that a woman's place is in the home, caring for children and serving her husband's needs.

One wonders if the contrary is true, and whether the increase in plastic surgery procedures over the last decade will foster a return to more traditional gender roles?

As demand for laser treatments has increased exponentially, more and more people are suffering from poorly done treatments. Although there is no data on exactly how many or what percentage of treatments are wrongly done, the effects are clear:

• Burning
• Scarring
• Pain

Remember, lasers are powerful tools. They can be used to cut steel, and when they are applied to your skin, they can cause extreme damage.

The basic process of laser skin resurfacing is essentially to vaporize the surface layer of your skin. The goal of laser hair removal is to preferentially kill your hair follicles with heat. In laser tattoo removal, the laser breaks down the pigment molecules of the tattoo. In all cases, the goal is to utilize the high power of the laser to destroy unwanted skin, hair, or pigment. Because of the laser's high power, it can easily damage adjacent tissue, killing nerves and causing deep damage to the skin.

If you are considering getting laser skin resurfacing or laser hair removal to improve your appearance, or want to remove an old, fading, even stretching tattoo, make sure to get your treatment done in a fully certified facility by trained technicians under the direct supervision of cosmetic surgeons. Contact an experienced, skilled cosmetic surgeon in your area today through The Cosmetic Surgery Directory.