Compared to medically necessary health care decisions (which are not yet immune to the regret of making decisions), elective healthcare decisions are especially vulnerable to retrospective review and regret by patients and surgeons alike. Michelle Yagoda, a facial plastic surgeon from New York City, believes that all procedures should conform to the principle of “less is more”, especially when it comes to teenagers. The current era focuses on patient-reported outcomes, and regret for making a decision is another indicator by which surgeons can and should measure postoperative outcomes. Although there are many young people who say they don't regret having plastic surgery, Zoë is not the only one who wonders if she made the right decision to “fix something that, otherwise, she would have learned to accept with age”.
Plastic surgeons can use these tools in a context of shared decision-making and, ultimately, increase patient satisfaction. Rod Rohrich, a plastic surgeon at the Dallas Institute of Plastic Surgery, tries to find out which adolescent patients are there on their own and which are there because of cultural or parental pressure. After reviewing the literature, it was discovered that preoperative education, decision-making tools and postoperative complications are the most important factors that influence regret making decisions after surgery. The purpose of this review is to analyze existing research on breast reconstruction, with the objective of improving the understanding of regret for making a decision in the field of plastic surgery and identifying effective tools to reduce its incidence later.
of aesthetic procedures. Most of the research on regret over the decision in plastic surgery revolves around breast reconstruction, and the lack of sufficient studies on the subject should be considered when reading this review. A better understanding of the factors related to regret making a decision can help surgeons provide more effective preoperative counseling and prevent post-operative regret. While patients may regret it, most of those who undergo surgery generally state that they are satisfied with the outcome of their procedures.
According to David B. Zhong et al.13, they found that regret decreased significantly when participants were satisfied with the preoperative advice they had received. from your plastic surgeon. Anthony Youn, a board-certified plastic surgeon and author of The Age Fix, told HuffPost that teens are becoming more specific about what they want done, thanks to the Internet.
This summary has demonstrated that regret for making a decision after breast reconstruction surgery is a complex phenomenon that is influenced by several factors...
