'aesthetic surgery' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the branch of cosmetic surgery that focuses on improving a person's appearance, rather than their physical health. For example, "After suffering from low self-esteem for years, Jessica decided to get aesthetic surgery to enhance her features."
After more than 100 years of modern aesthetic surgery, such a spectacle should not shock us.
This shortcut to practicing aesthetic surgery tends to outrage the traditionalists.
The heightened public interest in aesthetic surgery also creates clinical, ethical, and medicolegal challenges.
Ms. Lewis is profiled as doling out what is ostensibly an aesthetic surgery consultation to your reporter.
Modern aesthetic surgery, after all, began in in 1895, the same year that other modes of self-improvement emerged -- body building, for example, and psychoanalysis.
"Even 20 years ago, there was a prejudice against aesthetic surgery and doubts about its importance," Ivo Pitanguy, the country's most celebrated plastic surgeon, told the Guardian.
One day, he said, "it will be clear that aesthetic surgery brings the desired serenity to those that suffer by being betrayed by nature".
According to the International Society of Aesthetic Surgery (ISAP), Brazil has the second highest number of aesthetic surgeries worldwide, second only to the USA.
In fact, a research study by The Aesthetic Surgery Education and Research Foundation (ASERF) "found that cosmetic surgery patients experience a real-time decrease in 'negative body image' in specific social situations for at least 12 months after surgery".
His book, "Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery" (Princeton, 1999), portrays the quest for physical beauty as an ugly human epic.
No," says Dr. Rodney Rohrich, chairman of the emerging trends task force for the Aesthetic Surgery Education and Research Foundation.
