Patients who opt for cosmetic surgery often dream of what they’ll look like after the procedure. But now, an increasingly sophisticated set of imaging tools is giving them a preview that can be remarkably accurate. As a student of International Relations at San Francisco State, Guillermo is used to looking at the world from different angles. When he decided to explore cosmetic surgery for his nose, he took the same approach.
“As a guy, I’m not really looking in the mirror checking myself out, so I was very happy to look at the angles and check it out,” he says.
That kind of preview is being made possible by an expanding array of cosmetic imaging programs and high-tech cameras that act like a crystal ball, allowing patients to see what they’re likely to look like after a given procedure. In his office in San Mateo, plastic surgeon Dr. Frank Piro demonstrated an app that’s even available on an ipad.
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