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About Face

In Closing.....

I SINCERELY HOPE that those of you who have taken the time to read this book are now fully confident about what to expect from a facial cosmetic surgeon. Facial cosmetic surgery is not the work of magicians, as I have explained, but rather the ability of well trained specialists to find beauty where it exists and show it to a patient’s best advantage.

Finding beauty is sometimes a humble matter of disguising a scar or removing the bump from a nose. Other times, it does have magical qualities if we are able to restore a patient’s dignity with reconstructive surgery following an accident, or restore a patient’s confidence by altering the more obvious effects of aging. But most of the time, finding beauty in all its variety comes from within - when a patient connects with the self-esteem that shines through every gesture, and every expression, to make the world a better place.

I leave you now with a few words by Carl Gustav Jung, in his book Modern Man in Search of a Soul:
“Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding,
but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of life.
For a young person it is almost a sin - and certainly a danger - to be
too much occupied with himself but for the aging person it is a duty and
a necessity to give serious attention to himself.”

And finally, a word of thanks to my patients for their goodwill, trust and encouragement. Without them, this book would not have been possible.

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