Aesthetic Surgery Psychology Became a Research Subject!
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PSYCHIATRY SPECIALIST DR. MERVE SETENAY GÜRBÜZ: “VISUAL PERCEPTION DISORDER CAN LEAD TO UNNECESSARY SURGERY REQUESTS!”
VISUAL PERCEPTION TEST SHOULD BE APPLIED BEFORE AESTHETIC SURGERIES!
DR. ASLI DATLI: “AESTHETIC SURGERIES SHOULD NOT BE DONE TO LOOK LIKE SOMEONE ELSE!”
Aesthetic surgery requests, which have increased significantly in parallel with the increase in the use of social media, have been the subject of an important research. Requests, which were seen in a relatively narrower population with age, social status and gender distinctions in the past, are now preferred and demanded by many people regardless of need and necessity, regardless of all criteria. The processes can progress not only in a single area, but often in the form of combined surgeries. At this point, research results reveal results that will be an important criterion for plastic surgery patients.
Moodist Psychiatry and Neurology Hospital Psychiatry Specialist Dr. Merve Setenay Gürbüz and Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery Prof. Dr. Lecturer Prof. Dr. Aslı Datlı’s study, plastic surgery patients without any history of psychiatric illness and a control group consisting of healthy people who had never had aesthetics before were included. Motor skill-independent visual perception test 3 (MVCPT-3), Body liking scale (BAS), Impact of body quality on quality of life scale (BIQLI) and Life satisfaction scale (SWLS) were applied to all participants. It was revealed that plastic surgery patients who participated in the study had a significant visual perception disorder compared to patients who had never had aesthetics before. Research results, “Is This a Mind Game? Do Visual and Psychological Perceptions differ between plastic surgery patients and healthy individuals?” with the title of the world-famous Aesthetic Plastic Surgery The study published in the journal emphasizes the importance of undergoing a psychological screening before plastic surgery.
According to the study, plastic surgery is a powerful tool to make people feel better about themselves. However, the perception of beauty is a complex process shaped by social media, family dynamics and social standards. Therefore, careful evaluation of both the physical and psychological state before surgery emerges as the key to increasing patient satisfaction.
Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery Dr. Lecturer. Member Aslı Datlı and Psychiatry Specialist Dr. Merve Setenay Gürbüz; “the way a person perceives his reflection in the mirror, that is, the definition of visual perception, affects their decision to choose plastic surgery, but in case of visual perception disorder, it makes it difficult to make the right decision and achieve satisfactory results’.
AESTHETIC SURGERIES SHOULD NOT BE DONE TO LOOK LIKE SOMEONE ELSE!
Giving information about the study, Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery Dr. Lecturer. Member Aslı Datlı; “First of all, I would like to state that we are not criticizing the increasing demand for plastic surgery. On the contrary, we want to emphasize the importance of the right patient selection in this patient population. We see that plastic surgery procedures can create extremely positive effects both physically and psychologically when they are used not to look like others or to satisfy others, but to correct facial and body areas that have lost their dynamics with processes such as age, birth or breastfeeding, or to correct congenital disorders.
PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTS BEHIND PLASTIC SURGERY
Stating that as the number of aesthetic operations increases, the psychological state is affected without realizing it, Moodist Psychiatry and Neurology Hospital Psychiatry Specialist. Dr. Merve Setenay Gürbüz gave information about the psychological factors regarding the research results. Uzm. Dr. Gürbüz; “The question we asked when we started this study was, ‘Is everyone's visual perception the same? Could we be demanding unnecessary interventions because our perceptions change with psychological factors? How much of these applications are a need? How much of it is just a demand? People can often demand such operations from their doctor as a reflection of dissatisfaction in their lives and what they want to change but cannot change, and the result can sometimes bring disappointment. For this reason, we can think that a screening can be done both to protect the patient and to minimize the risks of unnecessary operations. After all, these are not innocent operations and we think it is important to ensure patient satisfaction and to evaluate the person from a perspective close to objective. In the study, we reviewed many different literatures for visual perception measurement and found a practical test called MVPT 3. We worked with patients who had never received a psychiatric diagnosis and focused on finding out whether a person really requests more than one operation due to a problem in their visual perception, even if they are not diagnosed with body dysmorphic disorder (those who see their body differently than it is at a pathological level).’.
“As a result, we found that individuals who have never had a psychiatric diagnosis, who have undergone plastic surgery, indeed have problems in their visual perception compared to those who have never undergone plastic surgery. Perhaps this raised the issue for us that this may indicate a situation that needs to be investigated more deeply in patients with recurrent operation requests.”
Drawing attention to the importance of preoperative assessment scales, Dr. Aslı Datlı; “All the factors revealed by the research show that plastic surgery is not only a physical intervention, but also a psychological and perceptual process. For this reason, making a visual perception assessment before surgery is of great importance in terms of better understanding the expectations of patients and preventing unnecessary interventions.”.
