The advancement of technology has been able to keep up with fashion. When women who regard beauty as a symbol of power are not satisfied with their current appearance, cosmetic surgery becomes their savior. But don’t be blinded by the lies of beauty and fall into the trap without realizing it. The real lie 1: cosmetic surgery without scarring Often you can see the advertising words “xx surgery without scarring”, in fact, this is another misleading, real knife surgery is not possible without leaving scars. The so-called “scarless surgery”, strictly speaking, is only a slight scar is not obvious, or the location is more hidden, not easy to see if you do not look carefully, but not absolutely scarless. For example, if the incision is made along the skin texture line or wrinkle line, the scar will not be obvious after the surgery; when the suture is neatly aligned with the skin edge on both sides to reduce the tension, the scar will be reduced; in some parts, such as the eye and jaw angle, the incision can be made in the conjunctiva or oral mucosa, and the incision after the surgery will be hidden. Of course, not all surgeries can take “scarless surgery”, and need to be combined with the specific situation of each person. Such as eye bag removal surgery, if the formation of bags is only caused by the formation of intraorbital fat, no skin relaxation and sagging problems, the conjunctival incision can be used to eliminate bags, the post-operative scar is completely hidden in the conjunctiva, and if accompanied by skin relaxation, orbicularis oculi hypertrophy, only through the skin incision, in this case, although the post-operative scar is very slight, is exposed, less concealed. The real lie 2: “painless cosmetic surgery” In order to eliminate people’s fear of doing surgery, many cosmetic surgery advertisements put out the banner of “painless cosmetic surgery”. Is it really possible to have a painless surgery? In fact, this “painless surgery” is only a form of propaganda, “painless” is based on perfect anesthesia technology, designed to reduce pain, but not completely painless. Anesthesia for cosmetic surgery usually includes four types: local infiltration anesthesia, local infiltration plus analgesia, sedation, local block anesthesia, and general anesthesia. The most commonly used in practice is the first one. The procedure of local anesthesia is to inject anesthetic into the tissues of the surgical area, and after a few minutes this area becomes numb and the pain disappears, at which point the procedure begins and the cosmetic patient feels no pain. Of course, it can not be interpreted as no pain at all, why? One, local anesthetic to be injected into the surgical area, there will certainly be injection pain, which is inevitable. Of course, you can also reduce the pain by slowly pushing the injection with a fine needle, or adding a small amount of sodium bicarbonate to alkalize the anesthetic solution to reduce the irritation of the anesthetic. Second, the injection of local anesthetic to diffuse to all areas of the surgery, sometimes there are omissions because the anesthesiologist did not inject evenly. Therefore, the anesthesiologist is required to be skilled and wait for a period of time after the injection to wait for the anesthetic to take effect before the surgery. In addition, the cosmetic patient’s sensitivity to pain is also an important factor in whether the surgery is painful or not. Some people can handle the same kind of injection pain, while others have unbearable pain. Therefore, “painless cosmetic surgery” is a principle of surgery, but it is only theoretical and relative. Aestheticians should look at this issue correctly and objectively. True lie 3: “bleeding in surgery, to eat more tonic” Generally after surgery, because of more bleeding, doctors will eat instructions to patients to eat more nutritious food, to replenish physical strength, to speed up the healing of the wound. But in cosmetic surgery, in addition to the very few surgeries bleeding more to where the rest are some minor surgery, bleeding very little, generally within a few milliliters to a few dozen milliliters. This amount of bleeding is insignificant for a healthy person. The red blood cells in the body will be replenished quickly in a short time and no damage will be done to the vital energy. For example, fat aspiration, because it is a less traumatic surgery, blood loss is also less, no need to over-supplement after surgery, otherwise not only the weight is not lost, excessive nutrition will instead make the waistline increase a few inches, and then it will be contrary to the original intention. Therefore, the correct approach is that after cosmetic surgery, you do not need to eat a lot of high-fat tonic food, but should eat more low-fat, high-protein, vitamin-rich fresh vegetables and fruits and soy products. This is to promote the early healing of the surgical site and reduce the formation of scarring. True lie 4: “scar can be completely eliminated” The treatment of scar has always been a problem to be overcome in the medical field. According to the existing medical technology, it is impossible to eliminate the scar completely, whether by topical medication, excision or grinding. Instead, it is only possible to reduce the severe scars and make the obvious ones less obvious. Scarring is a manifestation of our body’s self-repair in response to trauma. When the body is traumatized and the integrity of the skin tissue is damaged, the body mobilizes a large number of substances, mainly white blood cells and fibroblasts, for repair. If the trauma involves only the normal epithelial layer, the basal cells will repair the skin layer by layer, leaving the skin intact. However, if the trauma is deeper than the basal cell layer, the wound will be filled with fibroblasts and thus a visible moving scar is formed. Currently, there are laser therapy, medication, radiation (χ, β-ray) therapy, cryotherapy, compression therapy, and surgical methods to treat scarring. Different treatment methods are used for different scar types, and they can also be applied in combination. The plastic surgery method of scar removal is to use superb surgical techniques to avoid as much as possible the stimulating factors of scar proliferation, to make the large scar smaller and to hide it as much as possible in the natural folds of the skin, so that the scar is not obvious, but not completely eliminated without leaving a trace.