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Home  Cosmetic Surgery Choosing a Facial Cosmetic Surgeon
How to choose a facial cosmetic surgeon?
The three most important factors to consider when choosing a facial cosmetic surgeon are education, training, and most importantly, experience. Cosmetic surgery is a multidisciplinary specialty, which is primarily learned during a surgeon’s post residency training. Board certification in ophthalmology, otolaryngology, dermatology, general surgery, and plastic surgery may provide the foundation for a career in cosmetic surgery, but facial cosmetic surgery requires additional training. In fact, without post residency training, board certified surgeons from any of these specialties would most likely not have acquired the skill, experience, and sophistication to achieve excellence in the highly specialized field of facial cosmetic surgery.
What is the difference between cosmetic surgery and plastic surgery?
Cosmetic surgery is a subspecialty that uniquely restricts itself to the enhancement of appearance through surgical and medical techniques. It is specially concerned with maintaining normal appearance, restoring it, or enhancing it towards some aesthetic ideal.
 Cosmetic surgery is a multidisciplinary specialty practiced by a variety of disciplines including ophthalmologists, dermatologists, general surgeons, plastic surgeons, and other physicians from other fields. All of these disciplines have contributed to the vital growth of cosmetic surgery.
Cosmetic surgery is primarily learned during a surgeon’s post residency through ongoing continuing education, training, and experience.
Unlike cosmetic surgery, plastic surgery deals with the repair, reconstruction, or replacement of physical defects of form or function. While board certification in plastic surgery may evidence a physician competent in “plastic surgery”, it does not evidence competency in “cosmetic surgery” nor does it demonstrate more ”cosmetic surgery” education, training or experience then that of other board certified physicians.
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