What is the difference between beauty and plastic surgery?

As people's living standards continue to improve, more and more people have a small demand for beauty and plastic surgery. However, it should be noted that there are great differences between beauty and plastic surgery, and there are differences in various plans. Beauty and plastic surgery are completely different in terms of time and type of surgery. Beauty is simpler than plastic surgery and can improve minor skin problems. More serious problems require plastic surgery techniques to solve.

1. Differences in registration

As we all know, opening a beauty salon only requires general review and registration with the Industrial and Commercial Administration Bureau. It does not require a lot of professional equipment, special professional personnel or special places to operate. In addition to industrial and commercial registration, the opening of a plastic surgery hospital also requires, more importantly, the permission of the Ministry of Health, Drug Administration and other medical professional management departments, as well as specific and sufficient premises, professional staff and professional equipment.

2. Differences among practitioners

Most people working in the beauty industry have only a high school education or below, and it is rare to see medical school graduates entering this field. Plastic surgery practitioners must have a diploma from a medical school. Practitioners are undergraduates or postgraduates who have undergone several years or even decades of professional study and must pass the national physician qualification examination.

3. Differences in Industry Classification

From the perspective of industry classification, although the work objects are the human body or parts of the body, plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery belong to the medical category, while cosmetology belongs to the category of life maintenance and health care. The latter has almost no entry threshold, while the former requires many international and national medical mandatory standards review. This is why the beauty industry is now everywhere in the streets, but there are very few plastic surgery hospitals, especially those with high professional standards. Of course, there are also many beauty salons operating under the name of plastic surgery hospitals. This is related to the lax management of local hospitals. People who love beauty still need to distinguish the authenticity to prevent harm.

IV. Differences in Means, Process and Content

Plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery are medical surgical procedures and must be performed in a sterile environment with complete equipment. During the plastic surgery process, the patient's body tissues need to be dissected and sutured, and a series of medical protections need to be implemented before, during and after the operation, including preoperative preparation, intraoperative emergency plan and postoperative recovery. Anesthesia, microsurgery, vascular anastomosis and other technologies are modern medical methods that are impossible for ordinary beauty salons to use. The entire surgical process requires a complete surgical plan and cooperation between doctors and nurses.

Even though plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery belong to the same medical field, there are certain differences between them. Plastic surgery aims to solve functional disorders of the body, such as scar contractures that need to be removed and limb defects that need to be reconstructed; while cosmetic surgery only repairs the beauty of the body on its original basis, such as double eyelids and wrinkle removal.

Although plastic surgery and beauty treatment both aim to solve the problem of beauty, the latter does not require surgery and does not have the conditions to perform any surgery. It only uses physical therapy, health products or general medicines to maintain the human body (except for illegal business content).

5. Risk Differences

Plastic surgery hospitals are well-equipped and have a comprehensive and skilled team of doctors. There is generally no risk in engaging in medical plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery. However, all beauty salons are not qualified to perform plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery. Those who perform surgery illegally will inevitably face great risks. Those who love beauty must enter with caution or not enter at all. In pursuit of financial gain, many beauty salons ignore the repeated warnings from the national medical administrative departments and illegally engage in medical cosmetic surgery services beyond their licenses, putting those who mistakenly enter the salons at great risk. The "Omnidin" incident that occurred not long ago is still causing great pain to many people.