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Cosmetic Surgery Doesn't Help to Fix Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Katharine A. Phillips, MD, is the director of the body image program at Rhode Island Hospital and a co-author of the paper.
"BDD is a psychiatric disorder characterized by preoccupation with an imagined or slight defect in appearance which causes clinically significant distress or functional impairment," Phillips said.
"A majority of these individuals believe they have an actual deformity that can be corrected by cosmetic treatments to fix these perceived defects rather than seeking psychiatric intervention," she stated.
In their new study, the researchers report that in a small retrospective study of 200 individuals with BDD, 31 percent sought and 21 percent received surgical or minimally invasive treatment for BDD symptoms.
Nearly all of these individuals continued to have BDD symptoms, and some actually developed new appearance preoccupations.
They also note that in a survey of 265 cosmetic surgeons, 178 (65 percent) reported treating patients with BDD, yet only one percent of the cases resulted in BDD symptom improvement.
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