Women’s health educator and the Executive Director of Glitz Medical Centre, Stephanie Sefa-Boateng, has debunked misconceptions between clinical surgery and cosmetic surgery.
Shedding light on the differences between the two most commonly jumbled procedures in weight loss, she said the procedures are completely different and each serves a specific purpose.
“Cosmetic surgeries aim at changing the outward look of somebody. We are taking a few fats from your abdomen to make you look slender. It doesn’t change anything about how your human body functions.”
She added that if a person had any illnesses, cosmetic surgery would do nothing concerning the said ailment.
But, clinical surgeries also known as “Obesity surgeries aim at changing the physiological function of the body to lose weight, and they improve your quality of life. If you do any of the obesity surgeries, a year later, you’ll drop from 55 BMI to 32 BMI, and your disease progress for diabetes and hypertension will change. You can then decide either to stop the medication or your dosage will be reduced.”
She went on to mention that the new-found confidence that comes after the weight loss caused by the surgery was what made people confuse clinical surgeries with their cosmetic counterparts.
Mrs. Sefa-Boateng emphasised that with obesity surgeries, they concentrate on getting to the root cause of the problem to help their clients lose weight effortlessly without complications.
“We are reducing the size of your stomach so you can eat little. The part that we cut off is responsible for the production of the hunger hormone ghrelin. It’s going to reduce your hunger levels and change your metabolic profile.”
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