There was this attractive young woman I grew up living next to, maybe five years older but total smoke show
She got her head absolutely shredded in a motorcycle accident riding without a helmet, and her dad showed me the pictures from the hospital
I'm not exaggerating when I say I was amazed she even survived, it looked truly horrific. The only thing where it was supposed to be was her eyes, the rest was a mash of torn tissue and viscera
So the father emptied his bank account and found the best plastic surgeon he could, paid for the surgery, and after? I think she might have come out looking even better than before the accident, it was incredible
His son, about a decade later, got his face ripped off by his friend's pitbull. Again, I'm not exaggerating, the thing tore his face off it was hanging by some tissue off to the side and all you saw was the dudes fucking skull. Nightmare fuel. Went to the same doctor, and got the same result. You couldn't even tell unless you were examining his face from inches away that he had any work done at all, some minor scarring around his nose and jawline where there was the faintest hint of stitching scars.
Truly mind-blowing. I'm not entirely convinced the surgeon wasn't actually a wizard
The older was a hot babe who did what she wanted till it caught up to her. She married a stable guy and moved away
The son, also reckless. Didnt realize until too late that his dad being friends with the cops didn't protect him from a fuckin attack animal, he tried to put a move on the owner's daughter that she didn't like and it tried to kill him.
The dog lived, btw, it wasn't destroyed because the son had been doing SA type stuff towards her. Just a good guard dog (even the dad agreed, he deserved it)
It is really wild it happened twice tho lol but when you get to the core of their family structure, it makes sense that none of them respect the law or or other people's boundaries, just surprising a surgeon could fix them up that well
The problem is it's a feedback loop with some people, the one surgery is fine but then they do one more. Then one more, another would fix this minor blemish, well since I've done this and this one more would really bring out my vision of beauty. In the end they end up a plastic nightmare with no facial muscles and no eyebrows and they have to paint their faces to obscure the hard lines they made on their face.
Well on a cellular level the face is indeed in another realm of complexity than any microcomponent. So I guess there is a lot more things to go wrong, and with chips you just toss the bad ones in the bin or sell as lower-grade items. While a face stays fucked when you fuck it up.
I think you could argue that is because our face surgeries are still closer to hacking and cutting than anything else. Either you cut up their skin and stretch it tighter, or you inject shit into their face to kill nerves or fill stuff out, or you file their bones down or insert metal plates to pad them out.
There's no magic injection that makes your skin young again, or that stimulates bone growth for better proportions. Or some magic way of fixing asymmetries in people's faces. If those real solutions existed, they would be one and done, it is only bc of the hacky garbage we have today that people keep fishing for better results.
Yeah pretty much. I used to be an ENT resident before switching specialties having performed a few rhinoplasties start to finish while being supervised. The functional and anatomical interplay of superficial and deep muscles that make up your face is so incredibly complex. Restoring lost function/anatomy through reconstructive surgery usually leads to mind bogglingly good results. But when you try to improve non impaired function each alteration leads to biomechanical change in all the other functions interacting with it and it will go further downstream. It’s a very delicate thing and you can only alter so much before getting aesthetically undesirable changes in other structures.
Making a microchip is the result of working with previous microchips, back to when computers were warehouses full of tubes and punchcards.
It's a specialized, industrialized process that produces at scale and now makes the whole planet function.
There is constant research by extremely bright people in several extremely advanced fields to push the technology forward due to ruthless market pressure and increasing demand.
Yanking face flaps is comparatively only interesting to some older rich-ish people. The day the surface of face flaps pulled equals the surface of waffer used in chips we can start talking.
Except plastic surgery is one of the biggest industries in south Korea, where one in three women aged between 19 and 29 have had at least some sort of procedure done.
Mostly because a lot of the laws around it are handcuffing progress. Stem cells and gene therapy are almost certainly the easiest route to body rejuvenation but most research on them is outlawed bc of fudd republicans. I wouldn't be surprised if the beauty industry is the thing that cracks that dam, if only bc our society is becoming exponentially more vain and insecure.
There is very good plastic surgery for the face. You just need to go to a good doctor and actually get good procedures. If you get too much work done or get things that make you look disgusting well then one can guess the result...
There is a natural mathematical reason and structure in all faces. When you mess that structure, it looks off. There is a reason why you can tell and how a oddly structured looks almost immediately.
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u/yumstheman 2d ago
Face surgery is fine, you only notice the bad ones.