Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Age and Plastic Surgery: Is There a Perfect Time for Cosmetic Procedures?

10 Aug 2018 · 0 min

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A short transcript excerpt from a panel (or video) discussing older patients seeking cosmetic procedures. Speakers emphasize that chronological age is less relevant than health and patient desires—many older people stay fit and want their faces to match their bodies, and cosmetic procedures can restore self-confidence. The piece frames age as relative and focuses on patient-centered motivations for aesthetic surgery.

Glamorous older women who want to stay as young and youthful as possible. Age has nothing to do with anything. I almost avoid the topic and the conversation about chronological age entirely when I'm talking with these patients. They just want to look better. You know, there's been a generational shift in terms of attitudes, and why not? You know, there's some things you can do something about, some you can't, as long as they're healthy.
I have tons of older patients. They come in and they look amazing. I mean, they're working out, they're super fit, they're fitter than I am, and they want their faces to look like their bodies sometimes, and they have little areas that bother them. And I think it's fantastic.
I recently had a patient came in, I told Bruce about, and she had tears in her eyes, and she said, I feel like I have my dancer's body back. She really feels good about herself, and you could tell in how she looked. And age is relative.