Beauty Doc Blog

Should you cut and tell? Your plastic surgery is your business and no one else’s when it all comes down to it. Whether or not you choose to share any information on the procedures you are going to have is entirely up to you and not up to someone else.

Most patients choose to tell close friends and close family members. These are after all the people who will be providing care for those patients who have procedures with an extended recovery period. And married patients generally want the consent and approval of a spouse before having the procedure performed. If that is your choice, then that is entirely up to you. Only you can make a decision concerning whom you will discuss your plastic surgery procedures with. In fact, your doctor cannot discuss the procedures with anyone unless you have given him or her permission to do so. This is both a matter of ethics and of law in most states, which take patient privacy very seriously.

Keeping plastic surgery procedures secret isn’t as common as it once was, however. Just think for a minute about the number of celebrities you’ve read about or heard about in the past few years who have opened up and discussed the procedures they have had performed. Dolly Parton is known to have had breast reduction surgery. Pamela Anderson had breast enhancement surgery early in her career, and breast reduction surgery later on. Michael Jackson has had multiple plastic surgery procedures as has his sister Janet. Botox is quite popular in Hollywood these days and openly discussed. Also remember the different appearance that Rosanne Barr had after her procedures. She quite openly discussed them as well. Kathy Griffon, start of the Bravo show My Life On The D List, openly discusses her plastic surgery as well, though she has had so many procedures that her husband thinks she might be overdoing it a bit.

Remember also that many of the people you speak with may well have had plastic surgery procedures themselves. If not, they may have considered it, and probably know more than one person who has had procedures performed. You will probably find these folks to be easy to talk to and non judgmental. However, the decision in the end is still  yours. You may discuss it, or not discuss it. Your plastic surgery procedures are your business and no one else’s.