| Throughout history, beauty has been a valuable and muchsought after commodity, and never has a healthy, attractiveappearance been more important than it is today. The cosmet-ics industry is now a multibillion-dollar business. And whencosmetology, the science of creating or enhancing beauty,seems to need a helping hand, plastic surgery stands ready tosupplement its efforts. Plastic surgeons attempt to reshape the body by correctingreal and sometimes imagined defects in an individual s face,nose, breasts, or buttocks. The function such operations ful-fill is social and psychological, and the price is sometimesexorbitant. Usually plastic surgery is concerned with specific defects,whereas cosmetology deals with the general look of a person,from skin care to makeup. The efforts of cosmetologists-andplastic surgeons or dermatologists do overlap somewhat in thearea of skin care, however, particularly in the use of facialabrasion. Cosmetologists normally handle the minor prob-lems, attempting to apply the principles of clinical medicineon a small scale. Unfortunately, what is medically right andwrong in Skin care has not been definitively proven, which |
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