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Show CesfliiG BuroGPy d$ Physical appearance is our calling card. An attractive and pleasant appearance opens doors. IT IS not merely vanity that prompts tens of thousands of Americans to turn to cosmetic surgery to seek improvement of physical appearance. The mental shock of "dumbo" "dum-bo" ears can mark a boy for life, the American Medical Association points out. THE MOST common cosmetic surgical procedure is the rhinoplasty - the "nose job." The surgeon removes excess bone and cartilage to reduce the hump on a prominent nose. - For proper facial harmony, chins are sometimes built up with bone or cartilage transplants in an operation called mentoplasty. HANGING UPPER eyelids that give a look of fatigue-and aging can be corrected by ' removing excess skin and fat. The operation is called blepharoplasty. Bags under the eyes are included in this procedure. The widely known "face lift" is actually called rhy tidoplasty. Incisions "are made close to the ear and in the hairline and the skin is redraped into a more youthful . position. THE AGING process continues, con-tinues, however, and the face lift must be repeated after a few years. Surgery to correct protrud- -ing ears - otoplasty - is usually performed just prior to the child's entering school. THIS PROTECTS the child from the teasing by schoolmates school-mates that may arise from his appearance. The incision usually is hidden on the back side of the ear. Breast enhancement through implanting of a silicone prosthesis sometimes is sought. Injection of liquid silicone into the breast has . been found to be harmful and 'is no longer done. ENLARGED, sagging breasts can be reduced by surgery to remove excess tissue tis-sue and reshape the breast. Plastic surgical operations do not magical., talents or ne yfl"--People. R&" aay a liab,!,, '! ':, Person's own J,,, fs: :.; and Person1, normally. 1 n.:: |