Aesthetic Surgery - It's Aims and Possibilities

With age comes wisdom and experience. Regrettably, quite opposite things happen about youthful and attractive appearance as, with age, it is gone. Plastic surgery gives people a second opportunity in their life to look young and beautiful.

The plastic surgery specialist Gintaras Papeckys from Kaunas (second largest city in Lithuania) has devoted more than thirteen years to helping people and creating beauty. The surgeon worked on probation in Belgium at St. Luke’s University Hospital and took part in conferences in Greece, America, France as well as Check Republic. Although the time of life is running at a cosmic speed, says Papeckys, we can still slow it with the help of ‘technical tools’.

Many patients think that a plastic surgery specialist will miraculously change their body shapes into something totally perfect, but this is not so. Aesthetic surgery does not pursue records. The idea of aesthetic surgery is not creating ‘ideal’ beauty. The aim of present-day aesthetic surgery is to stop the aging process and help everyone look younger, more beautiful and attractive. “When somebody says to my patient: ‘Hey, you are not getting old! You look as beautiful as in your youth’, for me it is the best evaluation of my work”, says Papeckys.

Women start aging earlier than men. The first small wrinkles appear at the age of about 25. Therefore, a woman must become worried about her beauty much earlier. For the beginning, specialists recommend prophylactic procedures such as using creams containing fruit acid (AHA). It smoothes wrinkles and tightens skin. Later, at the age of 35, creams are no longer effective to prevent aging. The wrinkles from nostrils to the corners of the mouth become deeper, and the mimic wrinkles get more visible. Due to the fatty tissue atrophy, the cheeks sink in. Therefore, the surgeon recommends a bit more ‘aggressive’ procedures. They are not complicated and include micro-suction, fat transfer or Botox and Matridex injections into wrinkles.

Men’s skin is tighter, therefore micro-suction or fat transfer operations are recommended when they are about forty. At this age, there appear changes in the lower eyelid and cheek areas. For the fair sex, the critical age is over 40. The wrinkles of aging become clearly noticeable: the skin loses elasticity, falls and gets wrinkled; there appear laugh wrinkles, double chin and pouches under the eyes. A plastic surgery specialist evaluates the traces of age with the help of computer and suggests ways of correcting those changes.

At the age of about 40, surgical intervention is also recommended because the excess of skin needs to be removed. To restore sunk-in cheeks, specialists use synthetic and biological implants or the patient’s tissues. A special operation is done to remove double chin. All these operations are done for men as well.

Also, it is a frequent case when after childbirth women’s breasts lose their former shape. The most popular choice to restore and correct their former shape is the implants.

Children may also have problems with their appearance. Inborn defects often lead to psychological traumas. A typical case is sticking-out ears, the treatment of which is recommended for children of 5-6 years old, before starting school. Burn scar correction is recommended before the period of adolescence, when appearance becomes very important among teenagers. “Hare lip” correction is recommended for new-born children before taking them home from the hospital.

So when 40-year old celebrities with not a smallest wrinkle on their face tell you stories of the saving grace of yoga, balanced food and similar things, don’t take it for granted: very often it is the result of a plastic surgery specialist’s scrupulous work…

By Donatas Svetaka