After you have selected your plastic surgeon(s) to consult, the next issue is describing or telling your problem or concerns to them.

The most common statements that are said by  patients are when asked what brings them in is....'Now I don't want you to think I am vain' or 'You might think this sounds silly but' in either circumstance, it doesn’t sound silly, and is very common. People consider cosmetic surgery because things bother them, not what bothers their neighbor, friends, or spouse.

Cosmetic surgery is all about, in the end, making you feel better about yourself. Cosmetic surgery is, in essence, self-image improvement surgery. The outward changes effected by plastic surgery may be big or small but the impact on one's self-image can be enormous.

Therefore, the most important question is what physical problem bothers you. Why it does and how it does, does not really matter.

The very fact that it does is significant enough. While it is always written in plastic surgery textbooks and articles on patient selection for surgery that you should be certain that the patient's motivation is their own and not someone else's, very rarely are their patients who are considering surgery for reasons other then their own self esteem.

While impossible to know with 100 percent certainty why an individual wants to undergo plastic surgery the proper evaluation is done to get as close to the truth as possible and make sure the procedure selected will help, not harm the issue.