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What can you tell me about plastic surgery? is it safe?

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Risks of any surgery: Plastic surgery carries the risk of any surgery and more due to the fact that the vast majority is elective and not medically necessary but potentially beneficial psychologically and for other indications. Therefore in addition to infection, bleeding, scarring, etc risks such as over or under correction, inability to assure a specific cosmetic outcome or satisfy patient expectations occur.

Answered 11/30/2014

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Dr. Larry Nichter answered

Specializes in Plastic Surgery

Risk-Plastic Surgery: The risks of cosmetic plastic surgery are the same as any other surgery: infection, hematoma, wound breakdown, hypertrophic/unacceptable scarring, bleeding, as well as the potential cosmetic problems such as overcorrection, undercorrection, contour irregularity, inability to achieve a specific cosmetic result, etc.

Answered 12/28/2015

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