Confessions of a Park Avenue Plastic Surgeon by Cap Lesesne

Author:Cap Lesesne [Cap Lesesne, M.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780007382132
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Men

George, a divorced, balding investment banker who’d worked for PaineWebber his entire adult life, retired at sixty-two, then came to see me.

“I’ve wanted to do my face and nose for twenty years,” he said. “I woke up every day thinking about it. But I was afraid to walk into work on Monday after having a face-lift.”

It was sad and it wasn’t. He confessed to thinking he was over the hill, and that life for him was finished – yet here he was in my office, obviously trying to do something about it. Plus, he said, he’d met a younger woman.

“Between her and you,” he said. “Maybe that’ll be my ticket to youth.”

I was pleased for the opportunity but I had my work cut out. Not only was George totally bald but he had low eyebrows. How was I going to pull this off without large, visible scars across the top of his head? He didn’t want to wear a toupee. I had to tell him that nothing would really return his youth. But I could make him look better, despite the apparent difficulty.

I told George about a new procedure, an endoscopic browlift, suited for hiding scars, but I still couldn’t guarantee him a great result. The scars would be in the front part of the skull, at the top of the scalp, I told him; how visible they would be, I couldn’t say. At that point in my practice, I’d done few endoscopic browlifts, all on men with hair.

George told me to go for it.

Three weeks later, before he’d even entered the office to have the sutures removed, I was cringing. How would George look once the stitches were removed ?

I didn’t have to worry. Not only would the scars turn out to be practically invisible, but George entered my office with his new wife, the younger woman he’d been seeing. He’d married her during the first week post-op – a fairly persuasive argument that, even before the bruising is gone, the happier psychology brought about by a cosmetic surgical procedure has taken root.

While in 2005, according to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, men underwent only 11 percent of total cosmetic procedures (up from 8 percent of the total in 2004), their numbers jumped by 81 percent from just the previous year. Rhinoplasty for men increased by 103 percent; blephoraplasty (the eyelids), by 95 percent; otoplasty (for the ears), by 88 percent; liposuction, by 69 percent; and face/neck lifts, 55 percent … in just one year. BAAPS do not hold statistics for minimally invasive procedures, but in the US in 2003, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons record that Botox injections for men, over the previous year, increased 152 percent; microdermabrasion, 87 percent; cellulite treatment, 71 percent; and laser treatment of leg veins, 42 percent. Part of this increase is due to the diminished stigma of plastic surgery, part is due to innovations that allow for quicker recovery time and less fussing, and part is due to the continually growing pressure to look young longer for the sake of professional advancement.

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