Timeline for When someone has a plastic surgery on the face
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| Jan 22, 2017 at 19:35 | comment | added | Andrew | Okie dokie. Updated. | |
| Jan 22, 2017 at 15:54 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @Andrew you should update your answer. As you know I don't live in the US, I don't follow "makeover shows" or Reality TV, so I accept that plastic surgery as a term, may be restrictive, and even dated. Cosmetic surgery is definitely viewed as the cash cow of medicine today. But the OP said nothing about what type of intervention. BTW he's been asking a number of questions about surgery, did you notice? | |
| Jan 22, 2017 at 15:26 | comment | added | Andrew | I finally figured out what was bothering me about the phrase "plastic surgery". For whatever reason, you don't hear it much anymore -- for people who really need it, it's more common to say either "reconstructive surgery" or be specific about what is being "repaired" (cleft palate, mastectomy replacement, etc.). Otherwise it's referred to as "cosmetic surgery". I suspect this is because many plastic surgeons who do reconstructive work want to distinguish themselves from those who do only cosmetic work. | |
| Jan 21, 2017 at 18:40 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @Andrew I fully agree with your observations, but the problem is the OP did not provide context. Why has this person had cosmetic/plastic surgery? Was their face disfigured in a fire? Did they have a congenital defect? Did they want to physically change identity? In all these cases, I'd prefer to use the term plastic surgery, which evokes a more serious intervention one not solely based on cosmetic appearance. And then the OP wanted to know why his sentence had so few hits, well I hope the answer explains it. | |
| Jan 21, 2017 at 17:47 | comment | added | Andrew | Ex:. "Yes she looks great for her age, but y'know she's had a lot of work done." This is just a "social grace" thing, most likely. | |
| Jan 21, 2017 at 17:47 | comment | added | Andrew | Actually in California (where cosmetic surgery is common) while it is certainly "natural" to explicitly say "plastic surgery", it's not normal to use it unless you're talking about reconstructive surgery to fix some involuntary condition like a genetic abnormality or serious injury. Instead people seem to prefer the euphemism "had work done" to talk about purely cosmetic procedures like face lifts, nose jobs, Botox, collagen injections, etc. | |
| Jan 19, 2017 at 9:27 | history | answered | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |