Face changing

Article published in "Ieseanul " on 17.05.2005

Do you want to have Angelina Jolie's lips? Say it and it can be done. Claudia Schiffer's nose? No problem! Pamela Anderson's breasts? Piece of cake. J.Lo's ass? Even that can be solved. Give up on you Megan dream, go to the plastic surgery and, guaranteed, in half an year you are a brand new person.

Turn back the time

In plastic surgery,the most common operations are in the area of the head. 'Here, practically, you can reconstruct everything' says Theodor Stamate director of the Hospital of Clinical Urgency and the chief of the Clinical Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. The most accessible one is blepharoplasty, in which you can get rid of the bags that are under the eye or the eyelid wrinkles. The eyes look younger,but you have to pay between 300 and 500 euro. 'The facial lifting is more spectacular, it turns back the time' continued doctor Stamate. But the price is more expensive : 800-1.000 euro.

You can play with your skin however you like,you can change even your colour,like the sad example,as some same of Michael Jackson.'It's complicated,we don't do it in our country.It's risky especially when you get older.The pacients do it on their own skin' the doctor laughed.

New ears: one thousand euro

With your nose you play like with plasticine, either it's long, gnarled or snub, 'you can make it shorter, more straight, or reduce the nostrils,anything' mentiones doctor Stamate. And it's cheap: 500-800 euro, while in the USA it costs 5.000 dolars.

Anything else on the list? How about the chin? You can make it rounder,reduce it or make it bigger and it costs you only 600 euro.Another good news : flap-eared persons can get solve that problem through otoplasty.'The central crinkle is redone'.The incisions are done in the back of the pinna,the skin is being removed,and the auricular cartilage is remade' explains Theodor Stamate.One pair of new ears can cost around 1.000 euro.

Bloat the Zeppellin

The queen of plastic surgery still remains the silicone implant.You want to win the wet t-shirt contest or you only want to impress your boyfriend? Remember: you can choose from physiologic serum or silicone gel or both. 'The physiologic serum is the most recommended, the incises are very small, not visible for the eye'promises the surgeon. The operation and reconstruction leaves your wallet empty but everybody tells it's worth it. How much? 1.500 euro. Without any jokes, even man can operate their breasts, but not to make them big, but to cut them. Gynecomastia, that means the growth of men's breast, affects first of all alcoholics and drugged people.The problem can be solved with the knife, you remove some fat and after that take it from the beginning.

The man with the vacuum cleaner

The vacuum cleaner is probably the most craziest invention from plastic surgery. You remove the fat from the waist,from your ass or any fat part of your body that you can see in the mirror: on the chin, neck, arms,cheeks,it's even good for breasts too, when they are too big. The doctor makes a small incision, so that the vaccum cleaner's tube can get inside,and in two or three hours they fix you up, the fat is gone.You stay some weeks with a elastic girdle, so the skin can accumulate. 'The diet is necessary in liposuction' highlights doctor Stamate.For the price,it's simple, 300 euro for every part of the body that is evaporated.

So what is the total? A straight nose,some wrinkles removed and making the eyelids straight, you can add the ears,and even a silicone implant and let's not forget a general liposuction and you finalize: around 10.000 euro and you are as new. Your own mom won't even recognize you!

I got it !

Even though some say that it's just a legend,the elongation of the penis really exists. You either choose an implant with Gotex,or dermagraft. The incisions are well hidden and nobody will notive nothing. The result: 2-3 cm in plus at the erection. Maybe these cm really count. The price isn't based on your success with women: you get 700 euro out of your pocket, and hurry up cause you got to wait in line.

The latest crazy thing that is in fashion is vaginoplasty:the consolidation of the vaginal muscles and the reduction of the labias.About the effects,another time.

Silicones on first place

A serious statistic shows that 80% of the clients from the clinical department of plastic surgery from Romania are women.But the confluence is still poor: 3 clients per week.Women prefer liposculpture and mamar prothesis and man rhinoplasty, otoplasty (reconstruction of ears) and facial lifting

Silvia Craus