Restylane Info

Archive for September 5th, 2008

While the world of Cosmetic Surgery is expanding in popularity at a fairly constant pace, minimally invassive procedures including such facial fillers like Restylane have been gaining more attention at a much faster rate. Personal cosmetic enhancements have become a $13 billion a year industry in North America, alone!

Traditional plastic surgery procedures can still have certain connotations attached to them; that they’re sought after by the financially well off and somewhat older cross-section of society. However, the inverse of that idea is that physical appearance can drastically influence success or failure in people’s personal and proffessional lives at just about any age.

Especially for people in highly competitive industries, where youthful exuberance and energy are equated with professional success, facial fillers like Restylane are giving people an alternative to plastic surgery that’s convenient, relatively inexpensive and in many cases, safer than the traditional invasive procedures.

This begs the question “Is plastic surgery always about vanity?” If medical insurance can (at least partially) cover costs for having procedures such as Restlyane injections for certain types of jobs like T.V. news anchors and fashion models, the short answer the aforementioned question would be “no”.

This doesn’t mean, however, that the same kind of research and understanding by potential patients shouldn’t be exercised as it would for traditional cosmetic surgery. Not all medical professionals are cosmetic surgery experts and just because someone holds a degree in medicine, this is no guarantee that they posses any kind of specialty skills in cosmetic surgery and ill-informed patients end up paying the price.

It is imperative as a potential patient to do your research, by finding a well-qualified (board certified?) physician, with experience and the appropriate training to administer any kind of cosmetic enhancement, regardless of how involving or invasive the procedure is.