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Our modern society these days are always striving to perfect everything we do, the way we look and how we live our life. Many people do not realise that there are people constantly trying to perfect every inch of their lives just to stand out from the norm. Unfortunately there are more of us willing to go through drastic measure to try and change even the way we look, taking steps too far and almost always going through painful procedures to experience this.

However, there is a flipside to this. Where some people who seemingly do not need the extra help and expensive to change the way they look, others may use this opportunity to remove or improve past scars and abnormalities that they may have been born with. Take for example a more common change that people make when opting for rhinoplasty aka nose jobs. Many people are born various shaped noses, with many more people very conscious of it if they it protrudes out a little further than they would perhaps like.

Rhinoplasty is an old procedure which is believed to have been around for many centuries, dating as far back as 500 BC in Ancient India developed by an important physician Sushruta. He and a group of other physicians used the idea of reconstructing noses on patients who had had them amputated from a punishment order. This was practise only known to India up until the 18th century. The surgery was not used as a cosmetic procedure until 1898 whereby a man named Jacques Joseph had introduced it as a way of helping others reshape their noses.

The practise of rhinoplasty extended over a number of centuries, being a friend and miracle work to many wealthy celebrities. However, in some instances, famous celebrities who had taken this step to reshape their noses have suffered a counter effect on their career, in as much as becoming unrecognised and almost unknown. Image in the celebrity world is everything, especially for actors and singers; hence the need to go under the knife is more common.

Cosmetic surgery and plastic surgery are essentially the same; however one normally refers to the latter if there is a need to conduct the surgery for medical reasons such as covering burns through skin grafting etc. Rhinoplasty could easily be classed as cosmetic surgery, but it can also be seen a necessary procedure for various problems or to help patients breathe more easily. The idea of plastic surgery is not to produce something using plastic, but the term is derived from the Greek word Plastikos meaning to mold or shape.

Other common surgical procedures that are associated with cosmetic surgery are breast augmentation, male breast reduction, eyelid surgery, labiaplasty, abdominoplasty, octoplasty and much more. The idea is to improve or enhance the way one looks rather than completely curing the person of the ailment. The lesser known surgical procedures include hand surgery, microsurgery (replacing missing tissues using tissue from other parts of the body), paediatric plastic surgery, burn surgery and craniofacial surgery (involving surgery on craniofacial anomalies).

Resources: Anna Stenning is knowledgeable in plastic surgery procedures such as rhinoplasty and octoplasty having researched this field.