It seems that the various surgeries that the onetime “King of Pop” has undergone too many to be completed by the skin of his face suffered. The most recent photos of Michael Jackson is shown with several patches around their lips, which seem to hold the skin in that area.

Excessive expectations

The Jackson case is an extreme example of what experts call dysmorphophobia, a mental picture that “affects people who are constantly finding fault in his face or body. These people may have 10 or 15 surgeries in different parts of the body.

excess-surgery-esteticaAunque the picture is more common in women, men are not free: U.S. are known as “SIMON”-an acronym that refers to Single (unmarried), immature (immature), Male (man) Obsesive (obsessive), Narcissistic (narcissistic) – a type of patient that requires further evaluation before going into surgery .

There are those who arrive at the office with a picture of a celebrity to want to look, for example. “Here comes the medical criteria to detect that there is some disorder. But there is always the possibility of emergence of a surgeon with no medical test or non-specialists who are dedicated to plastic surgery.

Dr. Pantoja adds that in these cases is essential Consultation with a psychologist “because behind this table are severe problems of self esteem and poor management of expectations.

Many statements in one place do not cause only a cosmetic change. “When there are multiple surgeries on a specific organ, tissues lose their vitality and increasingly are responding differently and more complex.”

Each structure involved in a cosmetic change is reacting in a particular way over time.

Thus, the skin loses its texture, elasticity, shine and even the color. “Skin that has been operated on several times implies that the upper layers increasingly have risen from the deeper levels, which makes the whole movement that comes from deep suffering.”

In the reduced irrigation plus the loss of sweat glands, sebaceous glands and hairs, all that helps the skin surface “lose vitality, tone and elasticity, which is acquiring a texture like leather.”

The cartilages also are losing irrigation and consistency (hardness). Dr. Gonzalez notes that each new surgery leads to further inflammation, which in the long term is causing a fibrosis or scarring of the tissues, causing irregularities and calluses on the skin and cartilage.

Bones and muscles do not go unscathed. The latter lose elasticity and firmness, while decreasing the available bone structure and deformed. “So there are instances where a nose seems to have been amputated.”

Before surgery make sure you have clarified their personal risks for the surgery you perform, there is no-risk, but these are acceptable and lower than expected benefits, in most cases.

To reduce the risks should be undertaken full consultation before the surgery with medical exam to rule out diseases or conditions that interfere with good results, the query will be complemented by laboratory tests and if needed Consultation with other physicians such as internists to problems hypertension or diabetes and others.

An anesthesia specialist assessment carried out before surgery

The operation should be performed in an operating room with the prerequisites, this room should be within an institution that can provide emergency support as possible transfusion, transport and special or intensive care if necessary.

An appropriate choice of your surgeon and surgery site will can significantly reduce the risks.

Followed to the letter the instructions of your surgeon and care after surgery will be of extreme importance.

Take the time to recovery as advised after surgery. Quickly re-enter the job or make big trips can hinder normal recovery.

They are the surgical risks, since despite having the best machinery there is always the possibility of a risk in the operation: as it can be an anesthetic accident, postoperative bleeding, infection or scarring. Which brings us to say that all surgery carries a risk which must be assumed and try to minimize.

For instance, throughout anesthesia is a risk but if we have a good team of anesthesiologists and the intervention is carried out in facilities licensed and properly equipped, the risk is minimized. This ensures that the consequences of plastic surgery are lower than in other surgical practices because patients are usually healthy, most of them are aged between 18 and 50, and most of the interventions were practiced in flat surface.

However it can produce physical and psychological damage, sometimes irreversible. The consequences of bad practice in this type of surgery ranging from an imbalance or an excessive increase in breast can damage the spine, to the injury of any part of the nervous system and the serious complications after liposuction, that have caused some deaths.

The surgeon Carmen Flores explained the consequences that produce these injuries occur for a reason, because unfortunately patients are not properly informed of possible side effects or if the clinic, surgeon and anesthesiologist are able to perform the operation.

Among the most common complications that occur when we performed surgical practice:

1. Blood loss (bruises).

2. Infections.

3. Suture dehiscence (wound opening).

4. Tissue necrosis (loss of tissues such as skin or fat tissue).

5. Seroma (accumulation of serum haematic).

6. Hyper-or hypo-pigmentation of the skin.

7. Unsightly scars.

8. Irregularities in the operated areas.

For the occurrence of a fatal complication, is required invariably be caught by a hidden pathological condition in the patient, proceed with an aggressive surgical approach or procedures without training properly.

Fortunately, thanks to the advances that have occurred in practice, all measures appropriate surgical medical training and pre-and postoperative planning, accompanied by common sense and a moderate surgical approach allows us to now have a large safety margin.