And if one believes that women are more concerned than men about their appearance and their imperfections, attendance at these clinics demonstrates that reality is quite different and that gender-called "strong" is equally affected. In this area, man and woman differ, it seems that the approach and the resources needed to ultimately reach a common point to be beautiful or handsome correct an anomaly or hiding at all costs, the effects of passing time.
The cosmetic surgery most requested by the Algerians are liposuction and removal of facial wrinkles and neck resonance techniques daunting but who cares, as long as the "nimble fingers" of the surgeon will make access to guns supposed beauty: cervicofacial lift, "resurfacing" the skin by laser blepharoplasty, baldness, rhinoplasty, etc..
With the rapid spread of cosmetic surgery and the help of advertising and media, the Algerian citizen now know the difference between cosmetic surgery, operation dunnage or embellishment, and reconstructive surgery, which is a leading medical procedure to fix birth defects or to cope with the aftermath of an accident. It is also reimbursed by Social Security.
Between lovers of beauty and real sick
A quick tour of various cosmetic surgery clinics in Algiers reveals at least two types of customers: a passion for beauty and changing the "look" of On one hand, and on the other, people with birth defects or the result of an accident that eventually leave an indelible mark on the body and the moral.Amina, 27, is a patient the second category. She has a deep strain on the right side of the face after an attempt suicide five years ago. Since then she wants at all costs to repair what it has itself destroyed in a moment of strong depression.
Far from the tragic case of Amina, Nadia, 40, has found the way to the same clinic thrust it through his research, and unbridled feminine, "change appearance" story to hide a few wrinkles emerging but rebels. It is not his first time: three or four last summer, she passed them to "relook" somewhere in Tunisie.Mais there are no women in this case. Men still represent 20% of the population attending such clinics. And that rate is, it seems to increase as the males seek, too, to please and win by getting rid, first of that nasty baldness, which in a trice, you double your age or by correcting a specific defect in nasal or attacking this fat mass housed where it should not.
For the president of the Algerian Society of Aesthetic Medicine (SAME), Dr. Mohamed Oughanem, medicine or cosmetic surgery can only reflect the state of medicine in general in a country, and Algeria, "he Much remains to be done "in the matière.Il notes that in the field of cosmetic medicine, there is a" glaring lack of information, not to mention a complete misunderstanding of what kind of care about which there are many prejudice and cultural constraints. " Regarding the age group who have cosmetic application, Professor Rashid Amichi, owner of a private clinic for surgery of the face and neck, he looks at the age of patients ranging from adolescence the elderly, with a peak from the quarantine.
At home, 80% of his patients are femmes.Ce practitioner stresses, on the other side, the side effects of cosmetic surgery that can lead to failure of the operation and often, a new attempt to repair the insistence of the patient who must know, the professor insisted, that failure of an aesthetic surgery, he can sue the doctor involved to justice, particularly in cases where a contract in good and due form binds the two parts.The injured patient can also approach the Council of College of Physicians for filing a complaint against the practitioner in question, said Dr. Amichi.
A medical specialty yet unrecognized
The chairman of the Association of Algerian doctors, Dr Mohamed Bekat Bercani said that cosmetic surgery was not recognized in Algeria, and some clinical practiced clandestinely. He cites as evidence the citizen complaints it has received reports of serious failure of such operations. More explicitly, Abdelkader Guennar, Director of health sectors in the Ministry of Health, said that the Ministry grants authorizations for the opening of private clinics in medicine and surgery "remedial" and not of clinical surgery "cosmetic" .
The official added that the ministry and the Algerian universities do not issue degrees in this specialty, which means that cosmetic medicine "is not recognized in Algeria." In fact, some reported practices like plastic surgery are being performed under cover other disciplines, including surgery or dermatologie.M. Guennar explained that the department grants a license to open a clinic in a particular medical specialty concerned that if the physician holds a diploma or a certificate issued by the Ministry of Higher Education or a certificate equivalent awarded by universities étrangères.Dans this context, the manager announced that a control operation will be launched soon involving all private clinics in dermatology, and hospitals to better understand their working methods and ensure compliance with standards.
With the absence of a legal framework for the practice of this specialty in Algeria, Dr Oughanem association SAME denies him, the existence of clandestine practices of this specialty in private clinics. He prefers to suggest recognition of this specialty and the development of an instrument governs the legal, to avoid all dérives.Et religion into this?
It is recognized that Islam, with no coding and accurate in this particular field, does not authorize any voluntary change of physical appearance in humans, except in cases of force majeure (severe burns, irreversible sequelae accidental ...), Mkerkeb recalls Mohamed, imam at the mosque El Kods in Hydra (Algiers). For him, however, Islam tolerates some "improvements" but only when physical defects becomes heavy to bear. Some psychologists have criticized surgery aesthetics when it is excessive or unjustified. For
Aftis Abderrahmane, ordinary people who resort to surgery purely aesthetic "suffer, in fact, speaking of mental deficiencies in the frenzied pursuit of perfection, even if it cost them a lot of money." "C is a little forget that true beauty is that of the soul ", even if plastic surgery is sometimes wonders, says another psychologist warned.
Ramy Narimen
The Tribune/09/02/2011
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