Vanity Surgery

[irc]

Who knew? People are having their legs broken so they can be made a few inches taller!

"Patients are flying abroad for leg-lengthening surgery then relying on the NHS to sort out serious complications , surgeons have warned.

Experts said that social media had fuelled a desire to become taller leading to soaring demand for the procedure, which involves sawing the leg bone in two then inserting a limb-lengthening device so that people can grow by several inches.
The surgery usually costs about £100,000 at clinics in the UK, but in Turkey clinics typically offer the procedure for £25,000.
The operation is extremely high risk, and can cause nerve damage, disability, blood clots and infections, while some patients end up with one leg longer than the other. "

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/leg...

While leg breaking is perhaps the extreme end cosmetic surgery seems fairly common now. My wife's hairdresser is just back from Turkey after some sort of eyelid lift. Maybe just me but both pre and post surgery he is still a guy in his 60s who looks his age and shows the effects of sunbeds and holidays in the sun for 40 years.

Even worse than leg breaking is potentially fatal penis enlargement. Apart from possibly my eyeballs that is the last place I would want anybody sticking a needle.


https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/wan...

[HTP99]

I do find it odd what some people have done in the name of vanity, most look far worse than they would've looked if they had just aged gracefully, it is so obvious they they have had something done.

It is very sad when young people do it, look at the girls on Love Island (the wife watches it, honest), 20 year old young women that have work which oddly makes them look like older women that are trying to look younger, it has the reverse effect of what they want to achieve and as they are so young they are going to need more and more work done throughout their life to kind of top it up and keep it relevant.

It is a sad state of affairs.

[bloomen]

The leg thing has been around for a long time. China seems to be the world capital of it.

I'll bet almost everyone who does it is within 2-3 inches of the standard height anyway, or is the standard height.

And if you're a true short arse you're going to look very strange with 6 extra inches in your legs.

If people are willing to let the (mainly imaginary) expectations of others ruin their own body, so be it. I'm short on sympathy.

[irc]

No sympathy here except for BHS patients whose treatment is delayed while surgeons deal with the aftermath of dodgy unnecessary cosmetic surgery gone wrong.

[JoshSm]

Amazes me that people decide they want complex painful risky work done and think "I know, I'll take the cheap option".

[g3org3y]

irc said:

"Patients are flying abroad for leg-lengthening surgery then relying on the NHS to sort out serious complications , surgeons have warned.

Yes quite commonplace that we are sorting out complications from surgery done abroad. Not encountered patients having leg lengthening surgery, most commonly it's bariatric surgery (band and bypass) and other cosmetic procedures (tummy tuck, lipo etc).

I wonder whether dentists (or max fax) experience similar with the popularity of 'Turkey Teeth'.

[vikingaero]

Recently there was a chap who died in Thailand from a failed penis enlargement surgery.

[CountyLines]

vikingaero said:

Recently there was a chap who died in Thailand from a failed penis enlargement surgery.

What a huge cock.

[JoshSm]

g3org3y said:

I wonder whether dentists (or max fax) experience similar with the popularity of 'Turkey Teeth'.

You'd have to assume so.

Though I guess most of those cases would have to pay for their own repairs?

[untakenname]

Likely if they are already with the NHS for dentistry then they will get any future issues sorted out by the NHS, I had private dental work done after a car crash (paid for by the insurance) then a few years later needed part of the tooth re-affixed after chipping it, it was done for £70 pounds on the NHS.


Was out drinking with some younger people earlier this summer and was surprised that a lot of the females in their mid twenties had work done to their face that made them look a decade older.


Edit: similar look with the lips and lower face to this https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8np9wwe35o

[Tango13]

Having read about the F1 driver Ronnie Peterson and how complications from his multiple leg fractures killed him there's now way I'd be signing up for surgery on my leg bones unless it was absolutely necessary.

I've got a stainless pin inside my femur from a fracture 37 years back and it's damn well staying there.

[Jamescrs]

g3org3y said:

Yes quite commonplace that we are sorting out complications from surgery done abroad. Not encountered patients having leg lengthening surgery, most commonly it's bariatric surgery (band and bypass) and other cosmetic procedures (tummy tuck, lipo etc).

I wonder whether dentists (or max fax) experience similar with the popularity of 'Turkey Teeth'.

I've read a few stories now about UK dentists having to try and rectify Turkey Teeth, and a good few stories about UK dentists refusing patients treatment who have had the procedure done in Turkey too.

[John D.]

irc said:

No sympathy here except for BHS patients whose treatment is delayed while surgeons deal with the aftermath of dodgy unnecessary cosmetic surgery gone wrong.

Should have gone to M&S.

[P-Jay]

Jamescrs said:

g3org3y said:

Yes quite commonplace that we are sorting out complications from surgery done abroad. Not encountered patients having leg lengthening surgery, most commonly it's bariatric surgery (band and bypass) and other cosmetic procedures (tummy tuck, lipo etc).

I wonder whether dentists (or max fax) experience similar with the popularity of 'Turkey Teeth'.

I've read a few stories now about UK dentists having to try and rectify Turkey Teeth, and a good few stories about UK dentists refusing patients treatment who have had the procedure done in Turkey too.

I didn't realise how much of a risk Turkey Teeth are, ripping all of your teeth out, be they good or bad and replacing them with effectively fixed dentures that aren't going to last the rest of your life. People are doing it in their 20s too.

[Granadier]

P-Jay said:

Jamescrs said:

g3org3y said:

Yes quite commonplace that we are sorting out complications from surgery done abroad. Not encountered patients having leg lengthening surgery, most commonly it's bariatric surgery (band and bypass) and other cosmetic procedures (tummy tuck, lipo etc).

I wonder whether dentists (or max fax) experience similar with the popularity of 'Turkey Teeth'.

I've read a few stories now about UK dentists having to try and rectify Turkey Teeth, and a good few stories about UK dentists refusing patients treatment who have had the procedure done in Turkey too.

I didn't realise how much of a risk Turkey Teeth are, ripping all of your teeth out, be they good or bad and replacing them with effectively fixed dentures that aren't going to last the rest of your life. People are doing it in their 20s too.

My wife showed me a video recently - a young American woman, looked barely out of her teens, going to the dentist to have her 'teeth' adjusted. They took out the dentures and she had no teeth, just pink gums and a few metal posts implanted. I found it quite sad. Apparently the dentures last for many years but need to be adjusted and refitted by a professional every year or two. I can understand someone having teeth removed if they are diseased or whatever, but not taking out all your healthy teeth to replace them with fake ones. What if later in life you fall on hard times and can't afford the maintenance or replacement?

[Super Sonic]

irc said:

No sympathy here except for BHS patients whose treatment is delayed while surgeons deal with the aftermath of dodgy unnecessary cosmetic surgery gone wrong.

"Modern Living"!