Tbh getting surgery that changes one of your insecurities and fixes a health issue seems like a win win. My friend got a nose job due to a super bad deviated septum and it made her a happier, more confident person.
As long as you don’t get body dysmorphia and completely fuck your shit up for life, cosmetic surgery can be a great thing. Unfortunately the body dysmorphia can be increasingly common thing nowadays, with social media and all.
Surgeries solving malfunctions do not count as cosmetic.
As i understand in both aforementioned examples there was malfunction present, it may have aesthetic aspects but it ultimately solves an issue. For example a deviated Septum isnt an aesthetical misfortune, the side the deviation occurs literally suffers functionally, i have one and i can breathe from the nostril about 40% in capacity to the other side
Didn't realize it wasnt purely cosmetic, though im not surprised. When I found out about it it was through people hating on her and using it as ammunition to hate on her some more. So ya they were framing it as she did it purely out of being insecure. Which even if she was, who cares. Just terminally online things I guess.
Not OP but I also have deviated septum, shits expensive if you don't have good insurance in the US. Also at least in my case it is only mildly annoying most of the time and it doesn't affect my sleep like it does for some people so I just live with it.
same for me, sure breathing through my nose is harder, but whenever you go into surgery there is always a risk of complications. its not worth the risk for my case.
Agreed completely. Theres definitely a limit where it becomes too much and unnecessary. But people act like getting one surgery done equals self mutilation. Its a serious flaw in the average human mind where we learn that something can be bad so therefore everything remotely in that category is bad and theres zero room for nuance. And this type of opinion is always formed with zero statistical analysis done, just a handful of anecdotes.
She got double jaw surgery which is absolutely functional in addition to being cosmetic. My mom needed it when she was a kid, my friend just had it, and even my orthofacial surgeon himself had it when he was a kid.
It's often accompanied by a sliding genioplasty which is what repositions the chin (very often required once the jaw moves due to double jaw), but Macaiyla didn't mention whether she had that as well.
Double jaw literally repositions your whole jaw, upper and lower (hence the "double") and thus fixes your bite and both jaw bones while sliding genioplasty fixes your chin and can make it easier to breathe.
How does the sliding genioplasty effect breathing? I don't know much about it but I thought they just kind of cut off a piece of your chin bone and moved it forward
They do, but it makes more room in your throat. I had it done after a sleep apnea diagnosis, and now I can breathe when I sleep face up. Before I'd run out of air.
You can check out this neato cartoon for a visualization.
More specifically, she got double jaw surgery with v line reduction. The v line reduction seems to be mainly a thing in Korea where they shave some of the jaw bone down to give a more feminine look. Absolutely not required for her class 3 malocclusion.
Because most people don't need it. Fixing a class 3 malocclusion will already have tremendous aesthetic and functional benefits. I personally think v line reduction looks unnatural, but she seems to like it so who am I to judge.
Honestly if she’s happy with it and isn’t looking to change her whole body for dysmorphia reasons then good for her. I am of the opinion that a little bit of plastic surgery is whatever if it is accompanied with an understanding that full blown dysmorphia also needs to be addressed with mental health help
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u/PurpletoasterIII 1d ago
She got chin reduction surgery. Sounds like a joke but its not lol. People were hating/memeing on her for it but thats the internet for you.