Self body image is a major part in the mental and social development among kids. A child with a positive body image is developed into a happy, successful, and social accepted kid. Many studies indicate the connection between appearance and success in studies and social areas.
Already in elementary school, kids relate to physical differences of their peers in an unforgiving, sometimes even aggressive way. Kids start to feel different when they suffer from any kind of physical deficiency at the age of 4-5 years old.
This feeing becomes stronger with age, with the development of self - perception, and also as a result of feedback from the surroundings. The modern medicine sees itself responsible to look after the individuals' both physical and mental aspects. As part of this perception, changes occurred in the role of plastic surgeries and especially in kid's surgery.
Split lip surgeries
Surgeries to fix a split lip exist hundreds of years, and in their modern form already one hundred years.
Split lip always accompanied by severe distortion of the nose and teeth.
In the past, plastic surgeons didn't pay attention to this problem and basically ignored it or postponed therapy until the kid became an adult, arguing that in adult period the nose doesn't develop anymore and it could be designed without hearting its future evolution. This approach ignores the social and mental impact of the defect in the child's adolescence development.
In the past years, the trend is to try fixing whatever is possible sooner, while studies show that these procedures do not harm the organs development, and if necessary, corrections can be performed in later years. Basically the child earns significant improvement in quality of his life.
Ears surgery
Auricle defects can appear in different degrees and levels. Starting from total deficient of the ear, to sticking out auricle.
In the past it was accepted not to operate those kids before the age of 10-11. Today it has been studied that these operations to correct the defected auricles can be made at the age of 5-6, and prevent unnecessary suffering of the child, since the operation does not harm auricle development and growth.
Birth Marks operation
Birth marks is a general term for different stains on the baby's body. Sometimes it can be moles with a potential of becoming carcinogenic, those must be checked and removed. Others are local birth defects appears as a result of the creation of blood vessels, even if they don't have functioning impact, they could be an aesthetic problem, though could be treated by catheterization of the sick blood vessels, by surgical procedure , by laser treatments, or by combined treatment of all three procedures.
Undeveloped Breast surgeries
Undeveloped breast on one side, accompanied by bad asymmetry causes the teenaged girl major embarrassment.
The girl might avoid social activities like parties, trips, and going to the beach and the pool. Moreover, it is a mental task, to deal every day with the breast defect and trying to hide it from others. In the past it was accepted to perform the breasts surgeries not before the age of 19-20, assuming that at this age the breasts are already developed, and that an early operation might harm the breasts' normal development.
It has been taught that a girl that suffers from this kind of breasts defect is already considered sexually adult (two years after first period). The hope for self-fixing the gap between the breasts has no base, while at that time the girl suffers from terrible distress that gets even worse in time. In order to fix the breasts disorder a reformer operation could be done, or a combination of several operations (e.g. enlargement on one hand and lifting or reduction on the other hand). By performing these breasts procedures the girl's quality of life could improve significantly at a much younger age, than it use to be in the past.
Likewise, 15-16 years old girls with very big breasts (DD size and over), that avoid social and sport activities can improve their life significantly by performing the breasts correction procedures.
Genicomastia
Genicomastia describes a condition of prominent breasts' tissues among men or boys. This condition can cause great embarrassment and the men or boy might avoid going to the beach and the pool. In severe cases, the breasts are seen through the shirt and cause great embarrassment for the boy or the men.
The treatment is relatively simple and the improvement in life quality is significant.
kids and teenagers plastic surgeries - Closure
The increased awareness among kids and adults and the improvement of knowledge, techniques and anesthetization abilities, enables many kids today to enjoy better and more complete life, and improvement of their mental development, which was prevented from them not so long ago.
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