Atlanta Daily World

Plastic surgery for such simple defects as flyaway ears and a too-large nose have become as commonplace as having children's teeth straightened. There is no longer any excuse for a person to go through life with a nose or a pair of ears that cause him to be unhappy. The operation is often very simple and cost in money is nothing compared with the improvement in personality and happiness that it can bring.

Many more complicated plastic surgery operations are being performed, and will be, before long, thought of as commonplace and necessary. Take, for example, the problem of a receding chin. With the addition of cartilage and bone under the skin, a whole new appearance can result.

In this same area comes the dermabrasion method of brushing off the scars left by acne or the disfigurement of a bad case of freckles. These physical handicaps may seem very small to a person with an outstanding handicap like blindness. However, everything is relative and the person with these small imperfections can suffer, needlessly, all their lives if something is not done.

In the past plastic surgery meant only one thing to most of us—face lifting. Professional actresses and extremely wealthy women were the only people who went in for such surgery. This is still largely true, with one big change—people, both men and women—in any kind of job where youth is of great importance turn to this method of help.

The cost of this type of surgery is still quite high. The work is tedious and requires a great deal of skill. Doctors have found that many people who come to them for face-lifting must be turned down because they are not emotionally suited for such surgery.

The most popular type of face-lifting among men is partial surgery. The removal of eye pouches and jowls can be a great help. A man must realize that his short haircut reveals the small face-lift scars that a woman's hair and make-up cover. The scars often are a greater cause of embarrassment than the wrinkles.

The operation causing the most comment these days is the breast operation which makes small breasts larger, or reduce the size of overlarge breasts. The women with overlarge breasts suffer much physical discomfort. In England over-large breasts are recognized as a medical problem and surgery to reduce their size now falls within the realm of socialized medicine.