Here are some of the worst procedures that people actually do!
10 - Palm surgeries
You guys ready to change your destiny?!
Not everything is written in stone, and for Japanese men and women, fate certainly isn’t.
In Japan, one of the most popular fortune-telling methods is palmistry, which is the art of
reading the lines of the palm of your hand.
Some people would say lines on your palm don’t have anything to do with actual life,
ME, AHEM, but apparently, palm readers in Japan charge people money to tell people their
fate!
And then, people try to fool these palm readers so they can get a better fate!
What a time to be alive!!!
Palm lines are basically wrinkles in your hands.
If a surgeon makes an incision in your skin with a regular scalpel, it’ll just heal
and turn white.
If you make a mark with a laser, it’ll also heal and won’t leave a clear mark.
So some entrepreneur out there thought of a way to extend or create some of these lines
in the palm.
The lines on the palm have to be made with an electric scalpel, making it shaky and uneven
because palm lines are never straight and regular.
What an electric scalpel does is basically burn at the same time it cuts, so the result
is a shaky line just like the natural lines on your hands.
Hey, whatever it takes to fool the palm reader right?!
9 - Toebesity Ever look down at your feet and feel like
your toes aren’t pretty enough for flip-flops?
Well, me neither, but apparently there are people who look down and hate what they see!
Every year, more and more people are getting their toes reshaped to a thinner, leaner version
of itself, as crazy as that sounds!
This is called toebesity surgery.
And many people are willing to go under the knife for a purely aesthetic reason.
But what do surgeons actually do to those toes?
When someone wants to reduce the size of their toe for aesthetic reasons, doctors will cut
away some part of the tissue around the toe as well as some of the bone!
Obviously this way, those little piggies are gonna look MUCH sexier.
As you guys can imagine, this procedure is fairly dangerous.
When not done by an expert, a botched operation can result in permanent complications!
8 - Voice lift Unfortunately for all of us, aging is a reality
that’s gonna catch up with everyone.
As we get older, our vocal cords stiffen and our voices become raspy and hoarse.
You can use botox or go under the knife to look younger, but voices never lie.
Or do they?!
The latest luxury for aging folks is the voice lift.
This procedure is designed to make the voice sound more youthful by making it higher and
clearer!
Vocal cords work as string instruments.
When air passes through them, the vocal cords vibrate and meet each other at least 150 times
a minute.
As they stiffen with age or illness, vocal cords vibrate less and less.
So doctors developed a procedure to bring the folds together.
Voice surgery is actually nothing new.
Before, it was used exclusively by patients with diseases that robbed people of their
voices.
Now, a lot of people are undergoing this procedure in the hopes of sounding twenty years younger.
Nevertheless, doctors and experts are warning their patients not to do voice lifts unless
they absolutely have to.
This surgery may not be the greatest option in the long run, because as time goes by,
the voice of the patient can get even worse than it was at the beginning, sounding even
lower and raspier.
And apparently, once you get this procedure done once, you can never get it again.
7 - leg lengthening Obviously there are some people out there
that want to be tall.
However, what about wanting to be tall to the point to breaking your legs and being
off your feet for months?!
It’s a painful surgery and expensive as well.
So how does it work really?
Doctors have to break the legs in half and then install a telescopic rod into the cartilage
of the bone.
This essentially pulls apart the two halves a millimeter a day.
In the meantime, bone and veins and muscle will have enough time to regenerate itself,
only to be pulled apart the next day to regenerate again.
Wow that doesn’t sound fun.
AT ALL.
To grow just an inch, a person has to endure this process for at least three months.
There are some people who have grown six inches in height with this procedure!
Just imagine the commitment level that that guy must have had to have endured this procedure
for over two years!
That’s a ton of time and stress to have to go through just to be taller, but hey,
I guess it’s worth it for some people.
6 - Fecal bacteriotherapy You guys ever hear of Fecal bacteriotherapy?
This procedures consists of fecal transplantation from a healthy patient to a patient that’s
sick.
Yeah…..this really happens!
But why would anyone ever want to have a procedure like this?
Who wants someone else’s poo inside THEIR body?!
Well, in a healthy body, there are TRILLIONS of bacteria that’s living in the body that
help us out with many basic functions.
As gross as it sounds, we do need that bacteria to live inside us in order to survive.
Our bodies benefit from the bacteria as much as they benefit from us.
But sometimes we get parasites or infections that decimates the existing microbiota in
our body, or in other words, the good bacteria inside us.
With less of the good bacteria, this means that the parasites get stronger and the bad
bacteria have less competition for resources, and our bodies get weaker.
So this is where fecal transplantation comes in.
Doctors introduce healthy colon bacteria in the infected body by a colon enema, orogastric
tube, or even a frozen pill.
FMT is a highly effective treatment for many different colon infections.
There are infections that simply can’t be treated any other way.
The good news is, as bad as it sounds, fecal transplantation is supposedly not painful
at all, just tough to think about.
5 - Facial hair transplant Beards are probably the fashion trend that’s
had the most staying power in the last few years.
Who knows who really brought back the beard, but I’m gonna hand it to the hipsters as
the ones who brought beards back into fashion.
Beards are now everywhere and hey, that’s prompting some dudes who can’t grow one,
to want to get one!
Don’t let biology stop anyone from getting a beard right?!
Modern medicine has developed a method in which hair can be implanted onto facial skin.
Essentially, hair follicles are taken from the back of the scalp where hair is the thickest
and implanted into areas on the face where there aren’t any hair.
Pretty simple right?
The procedure involves minimal downtime, and the actual time for the procedure itself depends
on how much hair is needed to be transplanted.
Once the procedure is over, the hair falls out in about two weeks, but after that, new
hair grows in, and boom, there’s a nice new fancy beard for anyone that wants it.
Ahhh the miracles of science!
4 - Eyelash transplants Thousands of women around the world use extensions
for their eyelashes every day.
Many women even feel naked when they don’t have lashes on.
Truth is, lashes give faces symmetry and without them, people just sort of look odd.
Putting on glue and fake lashes everyday isn’t a fun thing to do however.
So modern medicine came up with the solution to everyone’s problems.
Just like there are beard transplants for men, there are eyelash transplants for women.
Eyelash transplants work just like any other hair transplant.
The doctors remove hair from the back of your scalp and then put it where eyelashes normally
are.
After a couple of months, biology and science will have done their magic and that patient
is gonna have new eyelashes to enjoy.
However, just imagine the number of times the doctor has to poke that person’s eyelids
with a needle, though.
Ayeeeee!
3 - Veneers Ever want to have teeth as white as possible
while being able to have all the food and drink that stains teeth?
Getting porcelain veneers are essentially the only way you can literally have your chocolate
cake and eat it too!
Veneers are basically a tooth-shaped and of course tooth-colored layer of material that’s
placed over a tooth.
It covers up the imperfections that a tooth might have.
If someone’s teeth are misshapen beyond typical repair, dentists usually recommend
getting veneers.
There are a few different types of veneers, and the most popular types are composite and
porcelain veneers.
The composite veneer is the cheaper and easier option.
When you get this, a resin is applied directly to your tooth, kinda like a nail polish.
The dentist waits until the resin is dry and then shapes the tooth.
However this type of veneer lasts only around five years and isn’t resistant to stains.
The other type of veneer is the porcelain veneer, which is much more durable, but much
more expensive.
It also involves shaving down of the teeth in order to fit the veneer over the tooth.
To be honest, any time any procedure involves cutting or shaving body parts that isn’t
hair, I’m gonna be a firm no on doing that procedure unless my life depended on it!
2 - Belly button surgery Who doesn’t want to look like they’re
at the prime of their life?!
Everyone wants to basically stay looking forever young, as long as they’re alive right?
Plastic surgeons keep developing new and even more radical procedures to make every inch
of a patient's body look like they’re 20 years old again.
And that’s how belly button surgery was came to be!
Someway, somehow, this procedure is popular among both women AND men.
Personally, I couldn’t care less how my belly button looks, but then again, maybe
my belly button just doesn’t look old?
I don’t know.
Belly buttons are basically round scars, and what doctors do is open your belly button
and reshape it.
Some people not only change the way their belly buttons look but also where they’re
placed.
You want that belly button higher or lower?
Don’t you worry, belly button plastic surgery can fix that for you.
However, people who’ve undergone this procedure say it hurts a lot afterward.
I’m pretty sure this is a hard no for me as well.
1 - Hemispherectomy I’d like to say you’ve probably heard
about this one but the truth is, you probably haven’t.
Hemispherectomy is a very rare, and as you can imagine, a very painful procedure.
People who endure hemispherectomies are usually patients with very serious seizure disorders.
You can guess where this is going, right?
Well, a hemispherectomy is basically a dangerous surgery in which half the brain is removed
from the skull.
It may sound like it’s something that’s almost unbelievable, but it IS a procedure
that’s rarely done.
The operations is a last ditch effort for patients with very extreme epilepsy.
Kids who endure hemispherectomies are the patients who’re most likely to recover successfully
from this procedure since children’s brains are still growing and shaping themselves.
Their brains can heal and make up for the parts they’ve lost.
Unfortunately, adults lose this ability as we get older.
Adults who get hemispherectomies have a harder time recovering and adapting to normal life.
As brains are still mysterious things to medical experts, we still don’t know the exact results
to be expected after hemispherectomies are performed.
After the procedure is done, some patients have trouble with math, while some others
have trouble with language.
It all depends on exactly how much of the brain is removed, and as crazy it sounds,
this operation isn’t an exact science!
Here’s what’s next!