Body dysmorphic disorder can lead to cycle of seeking excessive cosmetic surgery

For the most part, cosmetic surgeons treat patients with reasonable goals who want to look better, refreshed or rejuvenated.
“Fortunately for our work, we tend to see high patient satisfaction. We see an improvement in psychosocial functioning, body image and improvement in depressive symptoms and quality of life. But sometimes, unfortunately, there’s a darkness that drives the desire to change, and that is based on dysfunctional beliefs,” Wendy W. Lee, MD, the Baylis Cosmetic Surgery Award lecturer, said at the virtual American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and

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